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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 The menswear store in the city’s upscale suburb of La Jolla traces its roots to 1950 when Jack Matzinger opened a conservative, traditional haberdashery on Girard Avenue. —

Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 30 Jan. 2026 In the first movie, Kate realizes midway through a flight to Paris that the McCallister clan has left their youngest alone back in a suburb of Chicago. —

Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2026 Born Andrea Kennedy, in Houston, Texas, Andrea Yates is a former wife and mother of five children, who drowned her children to death at her home in the Houston suburbs on June 20, 2001, according to Time Magazine. —

Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 30 Jan. 2026 Connecticut suburbs and small towns have seen a wave of 8-30g applications in the past two years as developers seek the law’s protections. —

Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for suburb

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Lowell Town Manager Craig Hendrix said recent years have brought many new commercial and residential developments into town.

— Anna Ortiz, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2026
The South’s Most Scenic Chili’s Marble Falls, a small town located on Lake Marble Falls, a reservoir on the Colorado River in Texas’s Highland Lakes region, is largely known for its proximity to outdoor adventure, quaint downtown lined with local shops, and access to Texas wine country.

— Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 31 Jan. 2026