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We explore cosmological magnetogenesis in the post-inflationary universe, when the inflaton oscil-lates around its potential minimum and the universe is effectively dominated by cold matter. During this epoch prior to reheating, large-scale magnetic fields can be significantly produced by the cosmo-logical background. By considering magnetogenesis both during and after inflation, we demonstrate that magnetic fields stronger than 10−15 G can be generated on Mpc scales without having strong couplings in the theory, or producing too large electric fields that would dominate the universe. ar X i