prewar

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Oil prices that have risen $30 per barrel from prewar levels strengthened cash flow for upstream producers, including Diamondback Energy, even though shale companies resisted immediately increasing production.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

Gen. Sherman Miles, chief of America’s Military Intelligence Division in 1941, later called prewar America a “country loath to admit the danger it faced.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

“The market is more vulnerable now than it was prewar, given the significant inventory drawdowns we have seen over the last 3 months,” he added.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Researchers at Capital Economics estimate that Iran’s accessible foreign-currency reserves cover no more than three months of prewar imports.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Sunlight streams through large dirty windows into the shabby prewar apartment.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri