suburban
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The Lavender Cake Shed now brings in between £500 to £1,000 a week, with customers flocking from neighbouring towns like Redditch and Solihull to Danielle's quiet suburban road to sample her goods.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
One of them, a 69-year-old retired pharmaceutical microbiologist from Maryland named Robert Gerber, told me he once sold Florsheims at a suburban mall while attending college at Drexel University.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026
“We’re feeling confident,” said Hilton, standing in a suburban stretch of the city.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
Switching the setting of “Carrie” from suburban Boston to down-home Maine might have helped convince readers that the novel’s mayhem “could happen in any high school across the country.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
An unemployed thirty-six-year-old black man quit his suburban job because of the transportation problem.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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