suburb
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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
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
The singer died of natural causes on Tuesday in the Michigan suburb of Redford Township, per the Detroit Free Press.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
In April, University of Miami quarterback Darian Mensah paid $2.35 million for a six-bedroom house in the Miami suburb of East Kendall, Fla., a few months after transferring from Duke University, according to records.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Instead of cleaning up the mess, 1,415 of the town’s residents could be found more than 150 miles away, in a suburb of Tokyo.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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At the age of 50, John loses his job, and he and Helen move to the Los Angeles suburbs to make a precarious new start.
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
Optimism abounds, even on the city website, which promotes it as “one of the fastest growing suburbs of the San Francisco Bay Area.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 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
Out my window, I watch us rise higher and higher above Jackson; over the coliseum with its big top, the skyscrapers, the governor’s mansion, and churches downtown; the busy interstate, the sleepy suburbs.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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