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Of or relating to the period after the flood described in the Bible.

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  • Once the flood fades away, the city is redistributed in a new arrangement and a postdiluvian landscape emerges.
  • Plato in the form of a myth, but it was a myth more or less harmonious with Greek folklore, and the birth of the postdiluvian race from stones.
  • But in the financial crisis of 2007-08 a mighty real-estate bubble burst, and today the country is still stumbling like a dazed man through the postdiluvian landscape of...
  • But in the financial crisis of 2007-'08 a mighty real-estate bubble burst, and today the country is still stumbling like a dazed man through the postdiluvian landscape...
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