eastern

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That means it will be cool and wet across the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. this summer, but heat and drought will expand in the far west and California, increasing the risk of wildfires.

From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026

Living in the eastern United States between 83 million and 76 million years ago, Deinosuchus schwimmeri was a school-bus-sized relative of modern alligators that preyed on dinosaurs.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

The roughly 1,000-mile-long pipeline began operations in 1950, connecting oilfields of eastern Saudi Arabia to the port of Sidon in Lebanon, on the Mediterranean Sea.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

She was a retired former post office worker living in one of the poorest districts in the country near Hungary’s eastern border with Romania.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

By then, the Germans had transferred the best units of their eastern army to the Western Front, where they were preparing for a new offensive against the French and British before the Americans arrived.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman