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suburbia

[suh-bur-bee-uh] / səˈbɜr bi ə /






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“You might all of a sudden find yourself in suburbia and there is no one that you know or who looks like you,” she said.

From MarketWatch Apr. 23, 2026

The name Gunningham first emerged in what declared to be a world exclusive by The Mail in 2008, describing him as "a former public schoolboy brought up in middle-class suburbia".

From BBC Mar. 18, 2026

It includes the bulk of metro Nashville’s African American population, plenty of progressive hipsters who’ve flocked to the city from across the South, traditional right wing suburbia and slices of Appalachia.

From Slate Dec. 2, 2025

We were in suburbia, with plenty of open green spaces, woods and creeks.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 25, 2025

The vuvv compound rises out of suburbia, a collection of towers, buttresses, and bulbs of green metal.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson




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