postwar

adjective post·war \ ˈpōs(t)-ˌwär \

|Updated on: 6 Aug 2018

Definition of postwar

: occurring or existing after a war; especially : occurring or existing after World War II

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Recent Examples of postwar from the Web

That gain stood out in what has been the weakest economic recovery of the postwar period, with annual GDP growth averaging just slightly above 2 percent.

— martin crutsinger, USA TODAY, "IMF: Tax cuts boosting US now but will hurt growth later," 14 June 2018
Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St., New Haven. 203-432-0600, artgallery.yale.edu INVENTUR — ART IN GERMANY, 1943-55 Art history has neglected postwar German art because many German artists were killed or exiled during World War II.

— BostonGlobe.com, "The Ticket: What’s happening in the local arts world," 27 Apr. 2018
The institutional narrative of postwar art is limited, reflecting a general marginalization of women, people of color and artists who lack market success.

— christopher knight, latimes.com, "MOCA still mum about curator's firing, despite crucial questions and too few answers," 20 Mar. 2018
Only the arrogant ascendance of psychiatry in postwar America—warmly remembered by Neubauer's former research assistant, Natasha Josefowitz—can account for the researchers' duplicity.

— j.r. jones, Chicago Reader, "Triplets ripped from family in a Nazi-like experiment, probed in Three Identical Strangers," 5 July 2018
In a postwar world divided between the West and communism, America assumed the role of beacon.

— karl vick, Time, "A Reckoning After Trump's Border Separation Policy: What Kind of Country Are We?," 21 June 2018
The contest between these two philosophies happened over two world wars and two postwar peaces.

— martin peretz, WSJ, "‘Rooted Cosmopolitans’ Review: Of Persons and Peoples," 8 May 2018
Substantively, postwar liberals advocated an extension and expansion of the New Deal project while emphasizing, unlike some earlier Democrats, the inextricable connection between an egalitarian economic agenda and a commitment to civil rights.

— sam rosenfeld, Vox, "The Democratic Party is moving steadily leftward. So why does the left still distrust it?," 22 June 2018
In Amsterdam, architect Aldo van Eyck famously designed a series of affordable, postwar modernist playgrounds that serve as a model for what a park system could look like.

— patrick sisson, Curbed, "Why do young parents move away? Our cities aren’t designed for kids," 19 June 2018

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