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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Shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis rescued the former Royal Canadian Navy support boat from the scrap heap for $34,000 after World War II and spent $4 million (now about $50 million) transforming the military vessel into a statement of postwar opulence.
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Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 1 Feb. 2025
An actual, physical landscape in this poem represents the postwar cultural terrain, where what was once finest had destroyed itself by surrendering to brutality.
—Robert Pinsky, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2025
Son of a carpenter and a butcher’s helper, Mr. Herrmann spent his childhood in Braunschweig in the shadow of the iconic carmaker’s factories – emblems of Germany’s postwar Wirtschaftswunder, or economic miracle.
—Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Jan. 2025
The images from liberated camps shocked people around the world, as did survivor testimonies, and the evidence of mass murder revealed by postwar trials.
—Natalia Romik / Madę By History, TIME, 27 Jan. 2025
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Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 1 Feb. 2025
An actual, physical landscape in this poem represents the postwar cultural terrain, where what was once finest had destroyed itself by surrendering to brutality.
—Robert Pinsky, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2025
Son of a carpenter and a butcher’s helper, Mr. Herrmann spent his childhood in Braunschweig in the shadow of the iconic carmaker’s factories – emblems of Germany’s postwar Wirtschaftswunder, or economic miracle.
—Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Jan. 2025
The images from liberated camps shocked people around the world, as did survivor testimonies, and the evidence of mass murder revealed by postwar trials.
—Natalia Romik / Madę By History, TIME, 27 Jan. 2025
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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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