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the East

NOUN
Asia


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Construction crews began tearing down the East Wing in October to make way for the 90,000-square-foot facility.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Further connectivity is expected via Stewartby, which is slated for the East West Rail line, with a promise of four trains an hour to Oxford by the early 2030s.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

Together, these basins form a continent-scale fan-shaped pattern that researchers have named the East Antarctic Fan-shaped Basin Province.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

“Painters, Ports and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850” follows the careers of these entrepreneurial painters whose collaborations with the EIC and with one another produced new styles characterized by hybridity and innovation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

I noted a deliberate change in his accent—the softened hiss of the consonants in his words, the dental chh of West Bengali softening into the sibilant ss of the East.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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