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eastern

[ee-stern] / ˈi stərn /
ADJECTIVE
concerning the direction to the east
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The administration’s crackdown has transformed the perennially sleepy military zone of the Caribbean and eastern Pacific into a hub of activity.

From The Wall Street Journal

Melissa went on the make a second landfall in eastern Cuba still as a major hurricane and brought widespread damage and flooding.

From BBC

Four years older than me, he was dispatched to an American boarding school in Kodaikanal, a “hill station” scattered across the crevices of the Palani Hills, the eastern stretch of the Western Ghats mountain range.

From The Wall Street Journal

The suspects' activities, which took place this week in Warsaw and the eastern city of Bialystok, included "transmitting photographic documentation of critical infrastructure and key sites for state security."

From Barron's

When World War II ended, parts of eastern Poland were annexed by the Soviet Union.

From The Wall Street Journal