prewar
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Military spending now absorbs about 8% of economic output, roughly double its prewar share, Flug estimated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
According to ship tracker Kpler, oil flows through the strait, including associated ship-to-ship transfers, averaged around 7.8 million barrels a day in the week through Nov. 1, around 45% of prewar levels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
The group’s crude production levels are still below prewar levels, with key shipping routes disrupted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Class arrangements, in short, are not dissimilar to those in prewar Oxford when Tolkien was giving literary shape to his curious imaginings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Soon there were more and more people looking for space as Jews returned to the city to search for their families and try to reclaim their homes and their prewar lives.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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