east

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We’re meeting in his townhouse, located along the Thames in east London.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Among those who took the harsh road east were her grandparents and ancestors, as well as those of Ms. Gerson’s wife, Talia Inlender, an immigration lawyer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Addis has been looking to its neighbor and on-again, off-again enemy, Eritrea, a small pariah state to the east with a relatively long Red Sea coastline.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

This somber gamble was the consequence of the two-pronged invasion of Poland, in September 1939, by Germany from the west and the Soviet Union from the east.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Most of the other refugees we met were from Dresden, like us, though a few had come from farther east.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo