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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Emily Witt,
New Yorker,
13 Aug. 2025
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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
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.
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Emily Witt,
New Yorker,
13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exurb
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Redland, a unique stretch of agricultural land in southwest Miami-Dade in between the county’s southern suburbs and the Everglades, is undergoing an economic renaissance.
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Elizabeth’s father learned about the policy and how his daughter would be able to go back to school after delivery while attending a community durbar, or traditional public gathering, in Kraboa Coaltar, a suburb in the district.
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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.
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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.
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Robert Harrington will be the next mayor of the nation’s 14th largest city.
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In 2026, Goldman appears to be trailing in polls to Lander, a former city comptroller and councilman from Brooklyn.
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That’s exactly the feeling that Hayley Kiyoko’s feature debut film, Girls Like Girls, conveys with this coming-of-age story of Coley (Maya da Costa), a 17-year-old girl who moves to a small town with her estranged father (Zach Braff) after the death of her mother.
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Power is transmitted through a six-speed gearbox, with ratios that CFMoto says are equally suited to town and trail riding.
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The narrative conjures meaning from the Los Angeles cityscape by fusing a hodgepodge of textbook theories about the sprawling metropolis onto the gritty reality of daily life.
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The novels are a time-lapse panorama of a metropolis perpetually reshaped by its inhabitants.
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“Exurb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exurb. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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