: a region or settlement that lies outside a city and usually beyond its suburbs and that often is inhabited chiefly by well-to-do families
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Most houses built now are either large multifamily properties in urban centers, or tract housing in the exurbs.
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Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024
Republicans are stronger in less densely populated exurbs and towns and across Wisconsin’s sprawling countryside.
—Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2024
One of those juries was composed of citizens from heavily Democratic Manhattan, but two came in federal court in the Southern District of New York, with a pool of jurors from more politically diverse suburbs and exurbs.
—Graham Kates, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2024
The authors of the study found these distortion hotspots near Cape Canaveral, the suburbs and exurbs of Boston, and across Delaware and Maryland on the Delmarva Peninsula.
—Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
Those job centers, like Orange County and Los Angeles’ Westside, are far from the exurbs of Riverside or San Bernardino counties where housing growth is higher and prices are lower.
—Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
In Northern Virginia’s exurbs, the open 31st District is a seat that Youngkin carried by less than 1 point and Democrats won by almost 6 points in 2022.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 26 Oct. 2023
The district also includes several Denver suburbs and exurbs, which are growing increasingly blue.
—David Mark, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
Jonathan Gitlin For people living in newer homes in suburbs or exurbs who commute to jobs in office parks surrounded by vast expanses of surface parking, the size thing might not even be that noticeable.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2024
Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024
Republicans are stronger in less densely populated exurbs and towns and across Wisconsin’s sprawling countryside.
—Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 29 Jan. 2024
One of those juries was composed of citizens from heavily Democratic Manhattan, but two came in federal court in the Southern District of New York, with a pool of jurors from more politically diverse suburbs and exurbs.
—Graham Kates, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2024
The authors of the study found these distortion hotspots near Cape Canaveral, the suburbs and exurbs of Boston, and across Delaware and Maryland on the Delmarva Peninsula.
—Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
Those job centers, like Orange County and Los Angeles’ Westside, are far from the exurbs of Riverside or San Bernardino counties where housing growth is higher and prices are lower.
—Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
In Northern Virginia’s exurbs, the open 31st District is a seat that Youngkin carried by less than 1 point and Democrats won by almost 6 points in 2022.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 26 Oct. 2023
The district also includes several Denver suburbs and exurbs, which are growing increasingly blue.
—David Mark, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
Jonathan Gitlin For people living in newer homes in suburbs or exurbs who commute to jobs in office parks surrounded by vast expanses of surface parking, the size thing might not even be that noticeable.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2024
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“Exurb.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exurb. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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