as in town
an community near a larger city
a small suburb outside of Dallas
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Recent Examples of suburb
The social life of small towns is just as if not more complicated than city neighborhoods or suburbs.
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Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Sinegal has long been a major Democratic Party donor, hosting Presidential fund-raisers at his home in the Seattle suburbs.
—Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
What To Know According to 11Alive, Litt, who has lived in the norther Atlanta suburb of Marietta since 2004, was reported missing by her husband who was out of state at the time.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
The Enciso family split up in their Chicago suburb – the parents and the eldest son were stopping at a store and then getting breakfast, while the older sister took her siblings to a donut shop for her little brother’s birthday treat.
—Maria Santana, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
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Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
Sinegal has long been a major Democratic Party donor, hosting Presidential fund-raisers at his home in the Seattle suburbs.
—Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
What To Know According to 11Alive, Litt, who has lived in the norther Atlanta suburb of Marietta since 2004, was reported missing by her husband who was out of state at the time.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
The Enciso family split up in their Chicago suburb – the parents and the eldest son were stopping at a store and then getting breakfast, while the older sister took her siblings to a donut shop for her little brother’s birthday treat.
—Maria Santana, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suburb
Noun
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When Singh’s successor decided to make the fort taller, its shadow fell on the hermit’s home, consequently bringing destruction to the complex and surrounding towns.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
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The boat was intercepted off the northern coast of Venezuela, near a small fishing town called San Juan de Unare, which, in the past two decades, has become a transit point for the smuggling of cocaine and marijuana.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In the show, Marshall says his father moved to Eerie to study it as the most normal city in the United States.—
Jenny Porter Tilley,
IndyStar,
27 Oct. 2025
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Originally an agricultural town, cemeteries began to take root in Colma after a 1901 ordinance banned new burials within San Francisco’s city limits, a decision driven by limited real estate and a booming population.—
Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Suburb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suburb. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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