suburb
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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
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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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