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Owned by employees, the pair have relinquished their preinvasion roles as Moscow’s go-to oil merchants, making re-entry into Venezuela particularly attractive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 17, 2026

In preinvasion planning, U.S. advisers and their Iraqi opposition allies in exile had envisioned a shock system of reforms that would revamp Iraq’s oil industry and fund postwar reconstruction.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2023

The price has tumbled below preinvasion levels and has continued to slip lower almost daily.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2023

After 16 years, however, nitrogen returned to preinvasion levels as the nutrient leached out of the soil.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 3, 2022

Gen. Sami Nurmi, whose country shares a border of more than 800 miles with Russia, explained that preinvasion, only 23 percent of Finns favored joining NATO.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2022