How to Use postwar in a Sentence
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Born in 1933, Ono grew up in wartime and postwar Japan.
—Emily Labarge, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
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The highways were essential to the white flight of the postwar decades.
—Max Holleran, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2023
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Cheap repairs done in the postwar 1950s made things worse.
—William Booth, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2022
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These are not the people who enjoyed the largesse of the postwar golden age.
—James Chappel, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2021
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Flip-flops blew up in the United States during the postwar boom.
—René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 22 Apr. 2021
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The property is a throwback to the early postwar boom of the late 1940s and to the rise of Modernism on the West Coast.
—Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
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In the postwar years their interest turned to abstract art.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
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That's essentially the same as at this point in 2018, when midterm turnout hit a postwar high.
—Gary Langer, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2022
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Early MGs were lively handlers and helped spur the postwar sportscar craze on both sides of the Atlantic.
—Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 11 Mar. 2023
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The two goals could intersect in Netanyahu’s vague plan for a postwar Gaza.
—Eric Cortellessa/jerusalem, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
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Xuande grew up in Melbourne, the son of bakers who had fled postwar Vietnam.
—Brandon Yu, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
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Modular homes have come a long way since their postwar roots.
—Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 24 Mar. 2023
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Change in postwar Ireland was a bit like that, except in moral reverse.
—James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
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Chikin Ramen caught on and later became one of the most prevalent foods in postwar Japan.
—Alisa Freedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2021
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In the Yalta Declaration, the three leaders set the stage—or so Roosevelt thought—for the postwar world.
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2020
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Now, the sources of Japan’s postwar strength look like glaring weaknesses.
—Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 17 Aug. 2020
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Jay Garrick had been the Flash during the Golden Age, but his comics were canceled amid that postwar purge.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 15 Apr. 2022
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The good court of the postwar period was an aberration.
—Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
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This marked the first time in Germany’s postwar history that a majority was achieved with the help of the far right.
—Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025
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The Ulm school helped establish Germany as a center of design in the postwar world.
—Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2021
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The party, which has governed Japan for most of the postwar era, has never had a female leader.
—New York Times, 3 Sep. 2021
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Many of us could make a strong case for the Miura being the most beautiful postwar Italian sports car of them all.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 25 July 2022
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But the plans have not been embraced by all in the 41st Ward and its neighborhoods filled with postwar bungalows and ranch-style homes.
—Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2022
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Whiskey & Soda gets its name from a pair of lion cubs of the same names that were adopted, postwar, by members of the Lafayette Escadrille.
—Rick Nelson, Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
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Kishida is Japan’s first postwar leader to enter a war zone.
—Karl Ritter, ajc, 21 Mar. 2023
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If the ceasefire is to lead to lasting peace, the question of postwar governance in Gaza is crucial.
—Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025
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As a response to the Nazis’ oppression, Niemöller made this postwar statement.
—Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
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Chuck Close, one of the most important painters of the postwar era and a blue-chip name in the contemporary art world, died on Thursday at age 81.
—Brian P. Kelly, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2021
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The 12-day conflict ended June 24 under a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, yet postwar tensions remain high.
—Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025
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Serra, whose father fought in the Resistance, but in a non-Communist brigade that never reconciled itself with the more hard-line postwar Communists, admits more than a measure of sympathy for Malaparte.
—Thomas Meaney, New Yorker, 2 July 2025
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