Thesaurus results for EXURB

exurb

noun

as in suburb

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Recent Examples of exurb The areas fueling the shift are known as exurbs — rapidly growing communities on the outer edges of a metropolitan area, beyond traditional suburbs, where many residents still commute to the urban core. —

Brian Unger, CBS News, 11 Mar. 2026 The urge to tame big corporate landlords is bubbling over among locals in woodsy Paulding County, Georgia, an Atlanta exurb where church steeples and old graveyards punctuate the rolling hills, and an 18-foot fiberglass Wonder Woman waves at drivers. —

Bloomberg, Oc Register, 10 Feb. 2026 In Anani, an exurb a dozen miles east of Abidjan, our cars left the highway and drove through sand and scrub to reach 2Africa’s beach manhole. —

Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025 Nick’s parents are divorced, and the panic attacks begin after Nick, having become incorrigible in adolescence, is ordered by his mom to go live with his dad in a subdivision called Chariot Courts, in Libertyville, Illinois, an exurb of Chicago. —

Emily Witt, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for exurb

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Caissie Levy, nominated for her role of Mother, is the matriarch of a wealthy white family in a suburb outside New York City.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 June 2026
But displays of support remain prominent among the country’s Shia, who have suffered most from Israel’s bombardment of the south, and Beirut’s southern suburbs.

— Mick Krever, CNN Money, 6 June 2026