western

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In late March, the western state of Gujarat directed utility Tata Power to restart a facility that runs on imported coal.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

Together, they focused on the Gofar transform fault, located along the East Pacific Rise off Ecuador's western coast, in an effort to solve a decades-long mystery surrounding these repeating underwater earthquakes.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

After a bright start on Saturday, cloud increases from the west with some rain in Northern Ireland and western areas of England and Wales.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

"There is a huge interest," military expert Yury Fedorenko told the audience at the recent Drone Autonomy conference, held in an undisclosed location in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Most of the western Soviet Union was in German hands, but its largest cities still hadn’t fallen, and the Red Army was still fighting.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein