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suburb

noun as in neighborhood outside of but reliant on nearby large city

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The police say that residents helped officers to fight off an attempted attack on the upscale suburb of Pétion-Ville.

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She pulled more votes than her fellow Democrat not just in the blue bastions of Vancouver and its suburbs, but also in the rural reaches of the district.

In the capital, it has carried out multiple strikes on the southern suburbs, known as Dahieh, where Hezbollah is based.

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Afif, one of the few remaining public faces of the group, was last seen on Monday, when he gave a press conference in Beirut’s southern suburbs, where the group is based.

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The attacks come as Israel has intensified its air campaign across Lebanon in recent days, including on Beirut’s southern suburbs, where Hezbollah is based in the capital.

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

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