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Recent Examples of exurb
From the exurbs of southern Yuba County to the posh suburbs surrounding Folsom Lake, there’s something for everyone’s budget.
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Ryan Lillis, Sacbee.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Pitney Bowes started its Indian operations long before the current wave, setting up in Noida, an exurb of New Delhi, and Pune, an industrial city near Mumbai.
—Alex Travelli, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Many of its workers live in D.C.'s surrounding suburbs and exurbs.
—Andrew Solender, Axios, 8 Mar. 2025
An exurb of an exurb Anna, Texas, more than 45 miles north of downtown Dallas, is seeing the same kind of migration.
—Mike Schneider, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024
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Ryan Lillis, Sacbee.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Pitney Bowes started its Indian operations long before the current wave, setting up in Noida, an exurb of New Delhi, and Pune, an industrial city near Mumbai.
—Alex Travelli, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Many of its workers live in D.C.'s surrounding suburbs and exurbs.
—Andrew Solender, Axios, 8 Mar. 2025
An exurb of an exurb Anna, Texas, more than 45 miles north of downtown Dallas, is seeing the same kind of migration.
—Mike Schneider, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exurb
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Walkinshaw will now represent Virginia’s deep-blue 11th congressional district, which covers most of Fairfax County in the Washington, DC suburbs.—
Sudiksha Kochi,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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Following Bryton James bringing some of The Young and the Restless' Genoa City flavor over to BTG's fictional Maryland suburb setting of Fairmont in August, CBS announced on Monday that longtime B&B star Thorsten Kaye is now planning his own visit.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Sep. 2025
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Set in 1968 suburbia, Father of Us follows five siblings caught between their magnetic but reckless father and their radiant but overwhelmed mother.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
3 Sep. 2025
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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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At the same time, the White House has ordered immigration enforcement in cities around the country.—
Kevin Shalvey,
ABC News,
8 Sep. 2025
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The changes affect libraries operated by Maricopa County and not cities that operate their own libraries, such as Phoenix.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Canales was brought here to bring a creative offense to town.—
Mike Kaye
September 10,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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And the next test comes to town from Lafayette in the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns (1-1).—
Maddie Hartley,
Kansas City Star,
10 Sep. 2025
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So, any Gotham within a contemporary film in the Batman series that's going to be authentic has to be reflective of a modern American metropolis.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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About 120 miles west of London, just over an hour by train, lies Bristol—a vast metropolis that made Afar’s annual Where to Go list in 2022.—
Lottie Gross,
AFAR Media,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Exurb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exurb. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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