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eastern

[ee-stern] / ˈi stərn /
ADJECTIVE
concerning the direction to the east
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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

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

Kigali considers it a security threat and cites its presence in eastern DR Congo to justify its military posture.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Polls close in Mississippi, the populous eastern part of Kansas and all of Texas except El Paso and vicinity at 8 p.m.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

As ordered, the boys dug shallow trenches on both sides of Heerstrasse, a street on the bridge’s eastern end, and, with their rifles and Panzerfauste, they waited.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti


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