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eastward

adjective as in eastern

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By Sunday morning rain will have moved into Northern Ireland and will then progress eastwards to all but East Anglia and southeast England by dusk.

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Moscow is demanding that what it calls the "root causes" of the Ukraine war be addressed: an all-encompassing phrase with which Russia broaden its demands to include a halt to Nato enlargement eastwards.

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The city now stretches as far eastwards as far as Bingerville, which was the first capital of the French colony in the early decades of the last century.

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And towering plumes of smoke and acrid odors drifted eastward with the onshore winds.

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While the fire initially burned eastward, firefighters soon reported that it was spreading “everywhere all at once” with wind gusts between 70-90 MPH.

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