suburbanites

plural of suburbanite

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for suburbanites
Noun
  • From urban hubs like Boise to smaller towns and rural communities, residents can choose from a variety of providers and connection types.
    Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Rural towns, college communities, and even cities that have struggled with population loss have used MakeMyMove to tip the scale.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The company will pick up items like yard and food waste from residents.
    Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Weak shaking was observed in Glenbrook and the surrounding area, where several residents reported experiencing the tremor, according to the USGS DYFI report.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • One can trace the journey of a pilgrim, hear the voices of medieval townsfolk, or explore the craftsmanship behind a 12th-century sword.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • But in this disarmingly sweet, laugh-out-loud comedy about corn farming in the American South, the innocent townsfolk of Cob County use what sounds like the case file name only when debating the best way to cross the river.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Keeping a zoo clean and livable for its animal inhabitants guzzles a lot of power.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 Sep. 2025
  • But unlike the billions of other web-using inhabitants of planet Earth, the 72-year-old Canter feels an ever-so-slight twinge of culpability for all that digital junk that rockets across the internet each day.
    Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The contrast has consequences for land-dwellers like ourselves, as every degree of global warming will be amplified over land.
    Nadir Jeevanjee, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2025
  • For apartment dwellers who live up more than two flights of stairs, there is an extra charge.
    Rachel Wallace, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Suburbanites.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suburbanites. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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