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eastern

[ee-stern] / ˈi stərn /
ADJECTIVE
concerning the direction to the east
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Meteorologists say the cold front will stretch from eastern New Mexico across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, and likely into Washington, D.C.,

From MarketWatch

A number of Sharaa’s comrades, including his intelligence chief and his foreign minister, are originally from eastern Syria, and he leveraged those connections to areas long controlled by the SDF.

From The Wall Street Journal

Eight alleged members of a German far-right militant group dubbed the "Saxonian Separatists" went on trial Friday in the eastern city of Dresden.

From Barron's

Piper's body was found on a beach on K'Gari, an island off the eastern state of Queensland on Monday.

From BBC

Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union threatened to invade Western Europe through the Fulda Gap and in the north German plain, building up Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces along NATO’s eastern flank.

From The Wall Street Journal