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suburbs

noun

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plural of suburb

as in towns

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

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Recent Examples of suburbs But feral hogs have continued to become a problem in North Texas suburbs, including traffic incidents like the Wednesday morning crash. —

Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026 The shortage was less pronounced in the city’s suburbs, the report stated, although there were still 71 days out of last year where none of the area’s 163 available beds or cribs were available. —

Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026 The company's growth mirrored the rise of American suburbs and the do-it-yourself culture. —

Alexandria Mansfield, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026 Israeli officials further compounded those fears Wednesday, with Avichay Adraee, Israel’s Arabic-language spokesman, accusing Hezbollah of moving beyond its traditional bastions of support in the southern suburbs of the capital and embedding itself in north Beirut and mixed neighborhoods. —

Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026 Once a month, Brian Emerick makes the trip from the Chicago suburbs to Jacobs’ house in the city to pick up 10 or 20 boxes each stuffed with 50 or 100 tapes. —

Christopher Weber, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2026 Plumes of smoke rise from the sites of Israeli airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut on March 3, 2026. —

Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2026 Israel has also issued fresh evacuation orders for Beirut's southern suburbs. —

Npr Staff, NPR, 8 Apr. 2026 The new tolls are expected to help generate $15 billion to pay for essential repairs and upgrades to the city’s mass transit system and to improve public transportation in the New York suburbs. —

Tracey Tully, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025

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On April 26, 1986, an explosion at the nuclear power plant in Ukraine sent radiation across Europe and forced the evacuation of entire towns, displacing tens of thousands.

— Derek Gatopoulos, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026
Bartolo was born and raised in the Arkansas River Valley, where water rights sell-offs to Front Range cities in the 1970s decimated farm fields and towns.

— Bruce Finley, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026