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- noun Plural form of
easterner .
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Examples
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When speaking about social differences between the east and west of the city of Berlin, arts adminsistrator Alfons Hug bluntly called the easterners "a bit backward."
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But I was sometimes moved to recall, thinking on those difficult years, the well-known conflicts within the respective German foreign offices of the Kaiser's time as well as during the later Weimar period between the so-called "easterners" and "westerners"; and to reflect that after the deaths of Charles Bohlen and Llewellyn Thompson, I was probably the last of the "easterners" that the State Department of those years ever tolerated.
A Letter on Germany Kennan, George F. 1998
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Failure of "easterners" to realize that the Western Front was
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Failure of "easterners" to realize that the Western Front was
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But with all the more recent genetic studies it seems pretty clear that the Ainu and the Andaman Islanders are part of a broader swath of "easterners" who swept out of Africa (in fact, there are Y chromosomal haplogroups which the Ainu share with Andaman Islanders).
Gene Expression 2009
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"easterners" or worse yet "californians," who are part time residents, should have any say in the politics regarding public lands, monuments, etc., yet these are the very things tourist come for and are quite passionate about.
World Hum 2009
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"easterners" or worse yet "californians," who are part time residents, should have any say in the politics regarding public lands, monuments, etc., yet these are the very things tourist come for and are quite passionate about.
World Hum 2009
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"easterners" or worse yet "californians," who are part time residents, should have any say in the politics regarding public lands, monuments, etc., yet these are the very things tourist come for and are quite passionate about.
World Hum 2009
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"easterners" who think NE stops at Lincoln what we are about.
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"easterners" or worse yet "californians," who are part time residents, should have any say in the politics regarding public lands, monuments, etc., yet these are the very things tourist come for and are quite passionate about.
World Hum 2009
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