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prewar

adjective as in ante-bellum

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At times, Schumer’s prewar apartment building overlooking Prospect Park has resembled a tower under siege; he has yet to endorse Mamdani.

His home is in Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, which prewar was a more affluent district that roughly translates to “Windy Hill.”

Most of Hamas’s prewar senior leadership has been killed by Israel, and heavy fighting had fragmented the group’s lines of command.

These elites were the East Coast merchants who had prospered from the prewar Atlantic commercial boom that helped plant capitalism’s roots in North America.

She bought her first apartment in a prewar building on the Upper West Side soon after.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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