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suburbia

[suh-bur-bee-uh] / səˈbɜr bi ə /






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Environmental damage, plastic waste and the conformity of suburbia prompted designers and countercultural communities to imagine other ways of living — up to a point.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

“When we create a modern suburbia with fragmented parks and green space, we do a pretty good job at creating mosquito habitat,” Norris said.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

The RAV4 is to modern suburbia what porkpie hats were to ’50s dads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

Football came to Armstrong, via a television set, in suburbia.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

It was flat, not many trees, the same dusty red-clay dirt and grass as Soweto but with proper houses and paved roads and a sense of suburbia to it.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah


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