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suburban

adjective as in provincial

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Ms. Spanberger, a mother of three and former CIA officer, is a candidate from central casting for appealing to suburban swing votes.

With that in mind, he urged the cast to live their characters’ suburban North Carolina lives.

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The town and farm life he’d lived in Pennsylvania governed his imagination with even more intensity than the suburban Massachusetts world in which he would spend his adulthood.

In suburban and rural areas, the observed increase in violent crime over that same span—4% and 2%, respectively—wasn’t statistically significant.

“Wi$h Li$t,” a wistful song that hits like a contented sigh, imagines a simple life of domesticity in a suburban house with a basketball hoop, children and peace.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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