suburb
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The apartment was in a modest suburb, and the Mengele family had the wealth for something much fancier.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
Generations of Chinese immigrants have settled in Arcadia, transforming the San Gabriel Valley suburb, a typical bedroom community, into a “Chinese Beverly Hills” with high-end real estate and luxury shopping.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
It was a suburb within the city limits.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
Guillermo Ramos remembers seeing few elected leaders who looked like him while he was growing up in the 1980s in Farmers Branch, a fast-growing affluent suburb northwest of Dallas.
From Salon • May 7, 2026
Case number 32,101 was heard on October 20, 1977, in Fort Bend County District Court in the Houston suburb of Richmond.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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Latin Root "sub" Words
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