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East Coast

American  

noun

  1. the region of the U.S. bordering on the Atlantic Ocean.


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The first humpback was initially photographed in 2007 in Hervey Bay, in the state of Queensland on Australia's east coast.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Windswept Whitby sits on the east coast of Yorkshire, with its back to the North York Moors National Park and its face to the North Sea.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

In 25 years of flying, Ian Nixon had never faced anything like the crash that left him and ten passengers stranded for hours in the Atlantic Ocean, waiting to be rescued off Florida's east coast.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

Most historians are concentrating on the birth itself, when 13 disparate colonies along the east coast of North America declared their intention to separate from Great Britain.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

They set sail, probably in frail open boats, from the Red Sea, turned down the east coast of Africa up into the Atlantic, returning through the Mediterranean.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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