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suburbanite

[suh-bur-buh-nahyt] / səˈbɜr bəˌnaɪt /
NOUN
commuter
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Pearlman was initially the classic O.C. suburbanite, preferring to focus on the good life instead of local matters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2025

“I was a suburbanite kid who got a dose of exposure to what was happening to black Americans in my own city.”

From Washington Times ● Jul. 25, 2023

She added that as her children grew up and learned who they wanted to be in life, “I learned who I wasn’t — one of those card-playing, country-club suburbanite ladies.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2021

Elisabeth is a new mom — a writer and a reluctant suburbanite, recently transplanted upstate from Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn — whose narrative voice is characterized by an unflagging snobbishness and a somewhat joyless, acerbic outlook.

From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2020

They wouldn’t even recognize Megan the happily married suburbanite.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins


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