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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 Spungen, meanwhile, was born in 1958 and grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs. —

Nicole Briese, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026 Excessive lighting is a common feature of cities, suburbs and urban towns. —

Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 6 May 2026 The bills do not require developers to build affordable, accessible housing on a statewide basis and the SSMMA says developers have long shunned certain communities in the south suburbs, in Chicago and historically Black and brown communities. —

Jerry Shnay, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026 Now some Chicago suburbs are cracking down on where and how they can be used. —

Jermont Terry, CBS News, 1 May 2026 Congressional District, which stretches across much of Atlanta’s eastern suburbs. —

Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 1 May 2026 In turn, some housing advocates insist that Vessel’s critics — especially in affluent suburbs with restrictive zoning — are merely practicing NIMBYism in disguise, conjuring up hypothetical or far-fetched traffic or groundwater threats to justify refusing zoning permits. —

Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2026 The Concepción suburbs most affected by the blaze are a hot spot for loose building regulations and informal and rented housing, said Alvaro Hofflinger, a social vulnerability expert at Arizona State University who grew up in Chile. —

Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026 Alaíde Costa steps out of the Rio suburbs and into the birth of Bossa Nova, standing beside João Gilberto, Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes. —

Roberto Prieto, Variety, 24 Apr. 2026

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The warning applies to residents of 11 towns and villages in southern Lebanon, according to Reuters, telling them to evacuate their homes and move at least 3,300 feet away to open areas.

— Christopher Cann, USA Today, 4 May 2026
The original parchment was rolled up and stored in the office of the secretary of the Continental Congress, but was then moved around a fair amount during the war—bouncing around towns and cities in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey before ending up, in 1785, in New York.

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 4 May 2026