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suburb

[suhb-urb] / ˈsʌb ɜrb /


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In April, University of Miami quarterback Darian Mensah paid $2.35 million for a six-bedroom house in the Miami suburb of East Kendall, Fla., a few months after transferring from Duke University, according to records.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Yuvraj Yadav, who sells sandwiches in a Mumbai suburb, says he used to wrap them in discarded newspapers, despite concerns that chemicals in the printing ink can leach into food.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Such trends were in plain sight in Tor Bella Monaca, a working-class eastern suburb of Rome dotted by rundown apartment blocks, cash-for-gold shops and discount stores.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

The process: They had initially budgeted for homes around $530,000 in the suburb, which is about 40 miles north of Seattle.

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

My grandma met us at the airport, and from there we drove twenty-five miles north to a suburb called Spring.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

They lived in Tysons, Va., in the Washington, D.C., suburbs.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

Martin Blunt, a small company that manufactures strings for muscial instruments in the northern suburbs of Buenos Aires, has had to shift to a four-day week in the face of falling demand.

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

Often times, data centers need to sit close to power substations and fiber lines, which often means edging up against suburbs and exurbs where people already live.

From MarketWatch Sep. 4, 2026

Air-raid alerts throughout the day are threatening to make normal life in Kyiv more difficult than at any time since the early weeks of the war, when the Russian army reached the capital’s suburbs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 31, 2026

How they afforded a place in the suburbs, I couldn’t guess.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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