eastern

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The heaviest concentrations of Chinese traffic appeared along the eastern edge of waters shared by China and South Korea, as well as near key strategic commercial shipping lanes.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

During La Niña, the sea surface temperatures of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean cool — the opposite of the El Niño trend.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

"This is the first record of a giant squid detected off Western Australia's coast using eDNA protocols and the northernmost record of A. dux in the eastern Indian Ocean," Dr. Kirkendale said.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

One caused a fire at a disused oil storage site in eastern Latvia.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

He was on a pirate ship that raided ports up and down the eastern seaboard back in the early seventeen hundreds.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein