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eastern

[ee-stern] / ˈi stərn /
ADJECTIVE
concerning the direction to the east
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In North Kivu, rebel-controlled Goma, eastern DR Congo's biggest city and Butembo have reported cases.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

The Israeli military had previously issued evacuation warnings for 12 Lebanese towns, 11 of them in the south and one in the eastern Bekaa area.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

A project that might be more feasible to expand is the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline, which carries oil primarily from eastern Russia to China and Russia’s Kozmino port, a terminal near Vladivostok.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

The study, "First evidence of bidirectional exchange between distant humpback whale breeding populations in eastern Australia and Brazil," was published in Royal Society Open Science.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

They got on transport planes for a night flight to Puerto Cabezas, on the eastern coast of Nicaragua, the jumping-off point for the Bay of Pigs invasion.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin




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