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eastern

[ee-stern] / ˈi stərn /
ADJECTIVE
concerning the direction to the east
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Upland areas could typically see 30-40mm by the end of next week, with eastern Britain receiving about half of that.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

On Tuesday, Hunt Oil, another U.S. wildcatter with a long history of working in far-off jurisdictions, signed a production-sharing agreement with Venezuela to help pump oil from two fields on the country’s eastern flank.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

It will focus on the Shanwick Oceanic airspace in the eastern half of the North Atlantic corridor which accounts for approximately 5% of global contrail warming.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Grossi also visited a previously undisclosed site for storing graphite and the location where the reactor stood in eastern Syria, where excavation work is taking place.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 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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