suburb
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Such trends were in plain sight in Tor Bella Monaca, a working-class eastern suburb of Rome dotted by rundown apartment blocks, cash-for-gold shops and discount stores.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
He found Flock employees viewed cameras in the suburb of Dunwoody more than 1,000 times, including at a park.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The blaze comes just 24 hours after police confirmed they were investigating a car crash into a house in the suburb of Eaglesham, south of Glasgow.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
For instance, one single-family home in Ladue, an affluent suburb of St. Louis, is currently listed for $6.1 million, and another custom home is listed for about $3.8 million.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
But then he wrote that Sakubva, the town where I was sending his letters, was a high-density suburb and filled with poor people and crime, like LA.
From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda
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Often times, data centers need to sit close to power substations and fiber lines, which often means edging up against suburbs and exurbs where people already live.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Home prices in the D.C. suburbs are up more than 65% in the past decade, compared with a 27% increase in the city, according to Redfin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Not so fine any more, experts say, at least not without radical changes in the way France runs its forests and lets its suburbs expand deep into rural terrain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Mark SooHoo, a father of three who lives in the suburbs of Chicago, says social media and smartphones go hand-in-hand, and that both are harmful to young people.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
“And that living in the suburbs don’t make you any less black than living in the hood.”
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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