the suburbs
plural noun
: towns or other areas where people live in houses near a larger city
the suburbs of Chicago
also
: one of the suburbs of a city
She left the city and moved to the suburbs.
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That’s when thousands of people displaced from Hurricane Andrew in South Miami-Dade began new lives in the suburbs of South Broward.
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Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025
There wasn’t all that much to John in his first movie, either, but Reeves found something wry in his character’s reluctant un-retirement from life in the suburbs and return to being a notorious badass, while de Armas just defaults toward the dour.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 June 2025
He’s also played Groucho in the suburbs many times.
—Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025
But the public shift in preference from a downtown stadium to one in the suburbs apparently happened too late for the measure to even be formally debated by the legislature.
—Phil Rogers, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
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Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025
There wasn’t all that much to John in his first movie, either, but Reeves found something wry in his character’s reluctant un-retirement from life in the suburbs and return to being a notorious badass, while de Armas just defaults toward the dour.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 June 2025
He’s also played Groucho in the suburbs many times.
—Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 4 June 2025
But the public shift in preference from a downtown stadium to one in the suburbs apparently happened too late for the measure to even be formally debated by the legislature.
—Phil Rogers, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for the suburbs
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“The suburbs.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20suburbs. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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