eastern

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The couple have been visiting eastern Australian cities, including Canberra and Melbourne.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Their work focuses on sedimentary rocks from the Appalachian basin in the eastern United States.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026

The roughly 1,000-mile-long pipeline began operations in 1950, connecting oilfields of eastern Saudi Arabia to the port of Sidon in Lebanon, on the Mediterranean Sea.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

She was a retired former post office worker living in one of the poorest districts in the country near Hungary’s eastern border with Romania.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

More than a thousand years before Christ, near the eastern end of the Mediterranean was a great city very rich and powerful, second to none on earth.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton