blurbs

Example Sentences

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The future of American cities is in the exurbs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Instead “it does appear from anecdotal reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has shifted its activities from the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to the state’s suburbs, exurbs and small towns.”

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

While the residential boom has been biggest in suburbs and exurbs, urban residential property owners are just as mad.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2025

In the red-leaning exurbs of Fayette County, Ga., about 20 miles south of Atlanta, Danette Corcoran, a 67-year-old bus driver, voted for Trump because she thought he represented common sense.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2024

Which means that in the suburbs and exurbs it’s hard to generate the critical mass needed to ignite truly bad behavior.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman