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eastern

[ee-stern] / ˈi stərn /
ADJECTIVE
concerning the direction to the east
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In the month of March, rainfall was broadly below average in eastern and south-east England, April has started even drier.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Their work focuses on sedimentary rocks from the Appalachian basin in the eastern United States.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 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

They got on transport planes for a night flight to Puerto Cabezas, on the eastern coast of Nicaragua, the jumping-off point for the Bay of Pigs invasion.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin