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suburb

noun

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as in town

an community near a larger city a small suburb outside of Dallas

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Recent Examples of suburb Also Thursday, Texas executed James Broadnax for the 2008 double murder of Stephen Swan and Matthew Butler, two producers of Christian music killed during a robbery outside their studio in the Dallas suburb of Garland. —

Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 1 May 2026 Robert Burns, mayor of Monroe, a suburb southeast of Charlotte, shared the harrowing incident in an X post on April 30. —

Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026 Two Jewish men, aged 76 and 34, suffered stab wounds following an attack in Golders Green, a London suburb with a large Jewish population. —

Ali Rampling, New York Times, 1 May 2026 Congressional District, which stretches across much of Atlanta’s eastern suburbs. —

Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 1 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for suburb

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Our neighbors were Blacks and Puerto Ricans, working-class Irish and Italians, and some Jews who hadn’t yet moved on, plus the legions of us new immigrants, from Asia and Eastern Europe and the Caribbean, who’d ended up in this commuter town north of New York City.

— Chang-rae Lee, New Yorker, 3 May 2026
One afternoon in November, just north of the small Oregon coastal town of Yachats, a juvenile humpback whale tumbled ashore.

— Robin Romm, The Atlantic, 2 May 2026