East Anglia
Americannoun
noun
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a region of E England south of the Wash: consists of Norfolk and Suffolk, and parts of Essex and Cambridgeshire
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an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk in the 6th century ad ; became a dependency of Mercia in the 8th century
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“We’ve never known anything like it,” said Tim O’Malley, chairman of Nationwide Produce, which grows vegetables across a thousand acres in East Anglia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
In July, just 2 millimeters of rain fell in East Anglia, drying out fields and shriveling vegetables in one of the U.K.’s breadbaskets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Seriously though, I wish him well and I genuinely hope for East Anglia that Ipswich can make a decent fist of it and stay up.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
On Thursday, the focus of heavy, slow-moving and potentially thundery downpours will shift south, with the greatest chance of significant rainfall across parts of northern England, the Midlands, Lincolnshire, East Anglia and perhaps south-east England.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
He’d been in East Anglia with contractors seconded to the army, building coastal defenses, which was why he was so late coming to the hospital.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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