suburbia
noun
sub·ur·bia
sə-ˈbər-bē-ə 
Examples of suburbia in a Sentence
a problem that is common in suburbia
the percentage of the country's population living in suburbia
The film is an interesting critique of suburbia.
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Saft comes from Levittown, Long Island, the prototype for conformist, white-picketed American suburbia.
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Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
The setup for Black Phone 2 is that Ethan Hawke’s The Grabber is out there in the real world, not holed up in some neighborhood house in 1970s suburbia.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
Cinema painted small-town America in the 1950s as pristine and well-ordered, making suburbia an obvious target for an alien blitz.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2025
The hilariously surreal visual of 17 children stampeding through suburbia like a herd of angry elephants with murderous intent required some clever cinematic trickery.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
The setup for Black Phone 2 is that Ethan Hawke’s The Grabber is out there in the real world, not holed up in some neighborhood house in 1970s suburbia.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
Cinema painted small-town America in the 1950s as pristine and well-ordered, making suburbia an obvious target for an alien blitz.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2025
The hilariously surreal visual of 17 children stampeding through suburbia like a herd of angry elephants with murderous intent required some clever cinematic trickery.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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“Suburbia.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suburbia. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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suburbia
noun
sub·ur·bia
sə-ˈbər-bē-ə
: the suburbs of a city
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