Example Sentences

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Homeowners can expect to receive offers equal to 75% of their property’s predisaster fair market value, before back-to-back winters of heavy rain set off the area’s complex of ancient landslides.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024

If you can, it’s nice to be able to compare any measurements with predisaster measurements because it’s easy to assume that, for example, the rates of depression you’re seeing are because of the earthquake.

From Scientific American • Feb. 17, 2023

The California Office of Emergency Services agreed in a letter appealing the denial, pointing out that predisaster unemployment in Grizzly Flats was more than four times the national rate.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2022

“The promise to not re-create or exacerbate predisaster vulnerabilities has generally been unfulfilled,” concluded researchers Glenn Fernandez and Iftekhar Ahmed in a 2019 review of literature on BBB.

From Scientific American • Mar. 25, 2020