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suburb

[suhb-urb] / ˈsʌb ɜrb /


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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

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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