back East
idiom
variants
or back east
US, informal
: in or toward the eastern part of a country or region
She attended college back East.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer performed Monday in San Diego and then zoomed back East and made a guest appearance (with fellow troubadour Maggie Rogers) at a show by country star Zach Bryan at Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Wednesday night.
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Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
So far, only one person has been charged in connection with the case, a 37-year-old Tennessee man who police say operated around L.A. — allegedly with the help of a Nike employee from back East.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
Parker MacDonald, then an assistant coach with the Kings, remembered Nickson from their days with the club’s New Haven Nighthawks farm team and called back East to urge Nickson to send the Kings a tape of his work.
—Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
Suddenly jobless, a new proletariat scuttled back East, praying for work in factories and cities.
—Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
Wong married a New Yorker, and spent more than a decade back East.
—Kturnqui, oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2023
The team had to rise at 4 a.m. on Saturday for a bus ride to Ontario International Airport, then a flight back East.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
Success back East led the county to recruit him to San Diego in 1997 to run the region’s Office of AIDS Coordination.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2023
But our goal now is to build back East Buffalo, the Black community of Buffalo, the city of Buffalo, better and stronger than ever before, to hopefully get resources from the federal government, from our state government.
—Abc News, ABC News, 25 July 2022
Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
So far, only one person has been charged in connection with the case, a 37-year-old Tennessee man who police say operated around L.A. — allegedly with the help of a Nike employee from back East.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2024
Parker MacDonald, then an assistant coach with the Kings, remembered Nickson from their days with the club’s New Haven Nighthawks farm team and called back East to urge Nickson to send the Kings a tape of his work.
—Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
Suddenly jobless, a new proletariat scuttled back East, praying for work in factories and cities.
—Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
Wong married a New Yorker, and spent more than a decade back East.
—Kturnqui, oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2023
The team had to rise at 4 a.m. on Saturday for a bus ride to Ontario International Airport, then a flight back East.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
Success back East led the county to recruit him to San Diego in 1997 to run the region’s Office of AIDS Coordination.
—Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2023
But our goal now is to build back East Buffalo, the Black community of Buffalo, the city of Buffalo, better and stronger than ever before, to hopefully get resources from the federal government, from our state government.
—Abc News, ABC News, 25 July 2022
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“Back East.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/back%20East. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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