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Asia

[ey-zhuh, ey-shuh] / ˈeɪ ʒə, ˈeɪ ʃə /
NOUN
a continent in the east
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Middle Eastern crude is mostly what traders call medium sour grade, and before the war most of it found its way to refineries in Asia.

From MarketWatch Jul. 18, 2026

Vang Vieng has been a fixture on the Southeast Asia backpacker trail since Laos' secretive communist rulers opened the country to tourism decades ago.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

“China’s economy remains highly imbalanced,” said Frederic Neumann, HSBC’s chief Asia economist.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

But US think tank Asia Society's yearly Global Public Opinion on China, external survey suggested that China's image, which dipped during the pandemic, had only made a modest recovery since.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

He graduated and traveled through Latin America and Asia.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie



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