exurb

noun

Definition of exurbnext
as in suburb

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Recent Examples of exurb What made Walmart choose this particular exurb outside Dallas for a major store opening and author event? — John Hope Bryant, Time, 28 May 2026 Tucked amid the rolling hills of Solano County, halfway between San Francisco and Sacramento, this working-class exurb of roughly 103,000 residents has a reputation for being family-oriented, affordable and inclusive. — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2026 Two candidates are competing to become the next mayor of Grain Valley, the fast-growing exurb on the eastern end of the Kansas City Metro. — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 27 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 See All Example Sentences for exurb
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exurb
  1. suburb
  2. suburbia
  3. city
  4. town
  5. metropolis
Noun
  • Such schools, which were not partitioned by grade, were common in what now are Chicago’s suburbs, many of which started as small farming communities.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026
  • Valeri, who began playing at age 4 in his Buenos Aires suburb, said the futbol passion and aptitude run deep in a country where community pride infuses youth-club rivalries and street soccer prevails in many neighborhoods.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2026
Definition of suburb
Noun
  • Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth Eighty-one-year-old Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick lives quietly in suburbia until a neighbor's suspicious death draws attention to her and the decades-old secret she's tried to bury.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 19 June 2026
  • The actor got his start on Family Ties, an '80s sitcom about the Keaton family, whose matriarch and patriarch were once 1960s radicals now attempting to raise their Reagan-era children in suburbia.
    — Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
Definition of suburbia
Noun
  • But as parts of Hawaii have become more urban and roads busier and faster, especially on Oahu, where the capital city, Honolulu, is located, concern has grown about the dangers of riding in an open truck bed without seats or seat belts.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
  • This South Florida city once known for spring break mayhem is all grown up, so book a post-cruise stay.
    — Tracey Teo, AJC.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of city
Noun
  • The group also owns a 551-unit town home development, Blu South, in Pineville.
    — Claire Harutunian, Charlotte Observer, 23 July 2026
  • She and her friend were eventually released, and forced to walk hours back to town.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
Definition of town
Noun
  • Copenhagen topped the Economist Intelligence Unit’s ranking of the world’s most livable cities for the second year in a row, though Chinese metropolises made the largest gains.
    — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 8 July 2026
  • There’s always the temptation of an easy score, though, a con game suited to the great metropolis, captured here in Colson Whitehead’s signature deadpan.
    — Hamilton Cain, Time, 7 July 2026
Definition of metropolis

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