eastern
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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
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
Pentatonic scales are often associated with eastern Asia, but many other music traditions also use them.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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