A Russian victory in the city, which had a pre-war population of about 70,000 but has now been blasted to ruins, would give Moscow the first major prize in a costly winter offensive.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/fall-of-bakhmut-would-not-mean-russia-has-turned-tide-of-war---pentagon/article_0e41a77d-0f23-5662-8814-6625c5687df4.html

Carlsberg warned of the risk that Russian authorities could nationalise a business to keep its workforce at pre-war levels, if they suspect it is being deliberately stripped of value.

Source: https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/companies/arid-41069699.html

Fighting has focused for months around the Ukrainian-held city of Bakhmut in eastern Donetsk province, a city with a pre-war population of about 75,000, which Russia has been trying to encircle.

Source: https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2023/02/07/moscow-offensive-eastern-ukraine/

For most of the 1000 or so pre-war residents of the village the priority was getting to safety as the Russians sought to obliterate Moschun with a relentless bombardment of rockets and shells.

Source: https://www.thenational.scot/politics/23251552.david-pratt-ukraines-war-without-end-rumbles/?ref=rss

From the goatees of pre-war German rabbis and post-war American rabbis, to the never-groomed beards of Chabadniks, to the thick mustaches of religious Zionists in the 1970s and 1980s, facial hair can signal group identity and ideological affiliation.

Source: https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/word-prompt/word-prompt-beard-elli-fischer/2023/08/23/

Grain prices have since fallen to pre-war levels although they remain at historically high levels.

Source: https://www.ft.com/content/a05c3b2e-6893-48b6-94a4-02f35f80d79b

In decades to come, archaeologists, sociologists and artists will be looking back to these archives to get a glimpse of what the world before them was like, just as many are doing today with pre-war photographic and video archives.

Source: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/daniel-borg-go-blind-era.1063500

It’s a history lesson of pre-war Europe and beyond.

Source: https://news.wgcu.org/section/artsandculture/2023-06-29/last-day-of-june-1934-by-al-stewart-song-of-the-day-for-june-30

“It’s not going to be back to pre-war levels, but it is it’s going to be enough that when we add it into the rest of the global supply, it’s going to be a fair amount.”

Source: https://1010wcsi.com/hoosier-ag-today/the-impact-of-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-on-us-ag-markets-after-one-year-anniversary/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-impact-of-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-on-us-ag-markets-after-one-year-anniversary

Mirage's bio describes him as an unenthusiastic Autobot — formerly part of Cybertron's high class, he misses his pre-war life of aristocratic leisure.

Source: https://www.slashfilm.com/1204674/meet-mirage-the-autobot-voiced-by-pete-davidson-in-transformers-rise-of-the-beasts/

Poland, Lithuania and Latvia have already decided to start using the city's pre-war name, to the annoyance of Russia.

Source: https://news.err.ee/1609130003/riigikogu-to-vote-next-week-on-using-konigsberg-instead-of-kaliningrad

Temporary price shocks with a specific catalyst (e.g. a shortage of a specific metal in a war, or a shortage of hand sanitizer in a pandemic) will retrace back to their pre-war price when the catalyst is over.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4578903-fixing-inflation-the-history-and-opportunities?source=feed_all_articles

“The Bradford van was typical of their pre-war designs.

Source: https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/23425950.mary-ann-cottons-grandsons-died-war-heroes/?ref=rss

The conflict, which erupted in 2011 with the brutal repression of peaceful protests, cost the lives of more than 500,000 people and uprooted around half of the country's pre-war population from their homes.

Source: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/03/quake-hit-syrians-brace-subdued-ramadan

The old market square where the multi-storey car park stands today is filled with pre-war cars under the care and direction of a cheery car park attendant.

Source: https://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/retro/looking-back-with-ian-scott-on-falkirk-the-movie-4259195

"The only right place for Šantsõn model of pre-war Old Narva is here, in the Old Town, in one of the few survived historical buildings," the curator added.

Source: https://news.err.ee/1608985904/new-exhibit-of-old-narva-scale-model-on-display-at-narva-art-gallery

The war has killed more than half a million people and forced around half of the country’s pre-war population from their homes.

Source: https://www.kuwaittimes.com/syrians-recall-chemical-attack-10-years-on/