postwar
adjective
post·war
ˈpōs(t)-ˌwär 
: occurring or existing after a war
especially
: occurring or existing after World War II
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The Angels, founded in 1948 in San Bernardino County in a climate of postwar disillusion and rebellion, have often presented two very different public faces.
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Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2024
Xuande grew up in Melbourne, the son of bakers who had fled postwar Vietnam.
—Brandon Yu, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
But by planting the movie in the 1980s, Rohrwacher casts a sad glance at her country’s postwar development, depicting a land of eroding infrastructure, bumbling cops, and a cutthroat, capitalistic market for the artifacts Arthur is hunting.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
More than 200 paintings, sculptures and drawings — with the odd photograph thrown in, and a plan to rotate some artworks — trace the flow of ideas from early modernism to the postwar era.
—Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
The severity of Japan’s hay fever problem is due to the cedar and cypress trees that were planted in Japan through a postwar reforestation program to support the country’s booming construction industry.
—Michelle Lee, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
The postwar inflation surge ended relatively quickly — after two years — without an extended period of high unemployment.
—Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
Germany’s postwar transformation into Europe’s political conscience is often cast as a triumphant story of moral rehabilitation.
—The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
The furniture designer enshrined sensitivity, not domination, as the key to sublime design, in contrast to the ornate embellishments of Art Deco and the factory aesthetics of the postwar era, which embraced machinery as a human triumph.
—Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2024
Xuande grew up in Melbourne, the son of bakers who had fled postwar Vietnam.
—Brandon Yu, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
But by planting the movie in the 1980s, Rohrwacher casts a sad glance at her country’s postwar development, depicting a land of eroding infrastructure, bumbling cops, and a cutthroat, capitalistic market for the artifacts Arthur is hunting.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
More than 200 paintings, sculptures and drawings — with the odd photograph thrown in, and a plan to rotate some artworks — trace the flow of ideas from early modernism to the postwar era.
—Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
The severity of Japan’s hay fever problem is due to the cedar and cypress trees that were planted in Japan through a postwar reforestation program to support the country’s booming construction industry.
—Michelle Lee, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
The postwar inflation surge ended relatively quickly — after two years — without an extended period of high unemployment.
—Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
Germany’s postwar transformation into Europe’s political conscience is often cast as a triumphant story of moral rehabilitation.
—The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
The furniture designer enshrined sensitivity, not domination, as the key to sublime design, in contrast to the ornate embellishments of Art Deco and the factory aesthetics of the postwar era, which embraced machinery as a human triumph.
—Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
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postwar
adjective
post·war
ˈpōst-ˈwȯ(ə)r
: of, relating to, or being a period after a war
postwar Europe
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