eastern
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Arizona’s 6th Congressional District is anchored in eastern Tucson and its suburbs, sprawling north toward Phoenix, east to New Mexico and south all the way to the U.S.-Mexico border.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026
He was far more at home speaking Swahili, the lingua franca of eastern DR Congo, as well as east Africa, rather than the Lingala spoken in Kinshasa.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
Compared with neighboring areas such as Iberia in south-western Europe or Athens in the eastern Mediterranean, archaeological evidence was often fragmentary.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
His upbringing in Suffolk shaped his evocative descriptions of eastern England.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
We saw them lighting up the night sky all along the eastern horizon, and they did seem to be coming much closer all the time.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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