suburb
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But for friends and neighbours in the Mumbai suburb where his parents live, the courage came as little surprise.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
This is what is happening in our 10-square-mile, 67,000 population Chicago suburb, real incidents, real public-safety progress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
He later became head of the country's Department of Family Health in Kigali and lived in a suburb there with his wife and young son.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
In a suburb near Chicago, one home buyer in her 50s was on the hunt for a place to live as she finalized a divorce.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
This was the suburb where the old lady’s daughter lived, and we pulled into the long driveway of one of these beautiful homes.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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It just seeped into me: a lady willing to take her three boys down to demonstrate, fight in the suburbs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Hines, who has a background as a sex crimes prosecutor, is running against Mike Bouchard Jr. for an open seat in Michigan’s 10th District in the Detroit suburbs.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026
You talk in the book about escaping the suburbs of Connecticut to come to New York and establish yourself there in as a young man in 1975.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Martin Blunt, a small company that manufactures strings for muscial instruments in the northern suburbs of Buenos Aires, has had to shift to a four-day week in the face of falling demand.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Most black people integrating into white suburbs were moving to places like Bramley and Lombardy East.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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