western

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The Arab world's only nuclear plant, located near the UAE's western border with Saudi Arabia, is the country's largest source of electricity and produces around a quarter of national power.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

In late March, the western state of Gujarat directed utility Tata Power to restart a facility that runs on imported coal.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

Showers will be mostly confined to northern and western areas of the UK with sunny spells elsewhere.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

Together, they focused on the Gofar transform fault, located along the East Pacific Rise off Ecuador's western coast, in an effort to solve a decades-long mystery surrounding these repeating underwater earthquakes.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

Some of the scales that sound "exotic" to the Western ear are taken from the musical traditions of eastern Europe, the Middle East, and western Asia.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones