eastern

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The Acadians were French settlers in the eastern part of Canada.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

The Emirates was just a cluster of small princedoms along the eastern shores of the Arabian Peninsula when oil was discovered there in the 1950s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

In a sprawling office in Hefei, the eastern Chinese electric vehicle hub, hundreds of employees and several robotic arms sat refining software developed jointly by German behemoth Volkswagen and Chinese EV maker XPeng.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

There’s also a slight chance of showers over the eastern San Gabriel Mountains on Thursday morning and afternoon, according to the forecast.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026

As fighting continued, in 1781 in eastern Ohio, British troops displaced residents of the Moravian villages.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz