prewar

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Premiums for boats already in Hormuz have surged as much as 32-fold from prewar levels to record highs, translating into bills as much as $8 million for a single large tanker.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

With continental inflation tame, the European Central Bank looked to be headed prewar toward interest rates too low for lenders to earn healthy margins.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

Also, the increases of 1981-83 were less impressive considering that military spending at the end of the Vietnam War had declined to below prewar levels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

But he does see a pathway for oil flows out of the Persian Gulf to return to prewar levels in the next few months.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

In mid-July the Soviet Red Army had reached the prewar Polish border.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson