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post-war
adjective
happening or existing after a war
the early post-war years
Example Sentences
A senior Palestinian official familiar with the talks told the BBC that Qatari, Egyptian and Turkish mediators played a major role in convincing Hamas to tone down its objections and to leave contentious points such as the fate of its weapons, Gaza's post-war governance and its other concerns for the negotiation table.
Deploying their soldiers into a chaotic post-war enclave would open them up to accusations of collaborating with Israel.
In post-war Britain, obesity was rare due to food shortages and physically demanding lifestyles – lower-income groups were more likely to suffer from malnutrition.
In his speech, the housing secretary will promise to "build baby build", while "taking lessons from the post-war Labour government housing boom".
Previous waves of new towns had been "responses to overcrowding and economic imbalance in the post-war period; they offered affordable homes, green spaces and a sense of community", she said at an event run by the King's Foundation, a charity which promotes sustainability and protecting traditional craft and building skills.
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