suburban

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Starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, the film explores what happens to a family who wake up one day to find that their quaint suburban block has moved somewhere else entirely.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026

“We were dirt poor, had big Scottish accents at the time, a family of six siblings, and then coming to very conventional suburban schools,” he said, the memory eliciting a wild-card smile.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Penney, Bloomingdale’s and proprietary stores in the same suburban shopping malls.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Toronto, and the large suburban communities that surround it, are home to one of the world's largest Iranian diaspora communities -- some jokingly refer to Canada's largest city as "Teheranto."

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Cooped up in those little suburban houses, the rules were as strict as for Island girls, but there was no island to make up the difference.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez