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  • adjective Before a flood.

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pre- +‎ flood

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Examples

  • NAB estimated it would take about 4 weeks before businesses in that region would be able to return to preflood output.

    Australia Economy at Risk After Floods, Cyclone Geoffrey Rogow 2011

  • But to believe that the city will simply return to its preflood self is to discount the severity of what has transpired here.

    In Cedar Rapids, Some Things Will Never Be the Same Mike Hlas 2008

  • "By the end of the year, HDD price could come back to preflood level for certain drives," said Fang Zhang, an analyst at IHS iSuppli, a market forecasting company based in the United States.

    NYT > Home Page By THOMAS FULLER 2012

  • Since then, all wells are now back online and producing and we expect oil production to increase to normal preflood levels.

    unknown title 2011

  • John Coyne, the president and chief executive of Western Digital, which makes about one-third of the world's hard drives, said this past week that production in the company's factories in Thailand would not return to preflood levels until September.

    NYT > Home Page By THOMAS FULLER 2012

  • It is believed that the preflood earth held a mass of water that surrounded the earth underneath the crust.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • The shocker came afterward -- the zone didn't shrink back to preflood levels in the summers of 1994 or 1995 or 1996 or 1997.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • It is believed that the preflood earth held a mass of water that surrounded the earth underneath the crust.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Ashcraft 2010

  • It is believed that the preflood earth held a mass of water that surrounded the earth underneath the crust.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • Use the correct amount of nitrogen fertilizer (do not apply excessive rates; this is especially important at the preflood timing).

    Delta Farm Press RSS Feed 2009

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