postwar
adjective
post·war
ˈpōs(t)-ˌwär 
: occurring or existing after a war
especially
: occurring or existing after World War II
Examples of postwar in a Sentence
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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.
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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
Truman, who became president on April 12, 1945, canceled the egg rolls from 1946 to 1948 as the world dealt with a postwar food shortage.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
Since the first weeks of the brutal war in the Gaza Strip, Washington has devoted an inordinate amount of attention to the idea that reforming the Palestinian Authority (PA) is an essential part of any postwar governance in the territory.
—Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024
The dozens of workers at the SRW recycling center say their strike has become the longest in postwar German history — a dubious honor in a nation with a history of harmonious labor relations.
—Erika Solomon, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
In what sounds like the premise for a Wes Anderson movie, Blitz decided that the way to cure the ills of civilization that haunted postwar Europe was to take city dwellers into a pristine natural setting and remove the trappings of social status.
—Tony Perrottet, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
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
Truman, who became president on April 12, 1945, canceled the egg rolls from 1946 to 1948 as the world dealt with a postwar food shortage.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
Since the first weeks of the brutal war in the Gaza Strip, Washington has devoted an inordinate amount of attention to the idea that reforming the Palestinian Authority (PA) is an essential part of any postwar governance in the territory.
—Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024
The dozens of workers at the SRW recycling center say their strike has become the longest in postwar German history — a dubious honor in a nation with a history of harmonious labor relations.
—Erika Solomon, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
In what sounds like the premise for a Wes Anderson movie, Blitz decided that the way to cure the ills of civilization that haunted postwar Europe was to take city dwellers into a pristine natural setting and remove the trappings of social status.
—Tony Perrottet, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
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1853, in the meaning defined above
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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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