prewar

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Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. are better positioned because they invested in pipelines to the Red Sea and Gulf of Oman, allowing each to bypass Hormuz for roughly half its prewar exports.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

“You cannot run 135 vessels a day, the prewar baseline, through a narrow guided lane that depends on continuous overhead air defense,” she said.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

Of seven key U.S. munitions used in the Iran conflict, four may have expended more than half of their prewar inventories, according to the report.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

With continental inflation tame, the European Central Bank looked to be headed prewar toward interest rates too low for lenders to earn healthy margins.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

For Mother’s birthday, she received a real mocha cake, prewar quality, from the office.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank