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eastern

[ee-stern] / ˈi stərn /
ADJECTIVE
concerning the direction to the east
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It comes after spring rainfall had been exceptionally low for southern and eastern England up until the start of May.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

The previous humpback travel record was held by a whale that swam more than 13,000 km from Colombia's Pacific coast to Zanzibar off eastern Africa.

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

Her brother had gone out to Montana himself and assured her this was the text any homesteader must have for farming in eastern prairie country.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson




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