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suburb

noun as in neighborhood outside of but reliant on nearby large city

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In a leafy suburb of south-east London, locals hope a simple solution is in sight to shut down noisy, dangerous, car racing that has blighted their lives for years.

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Chevron, the oil giant that now owns the refinery, looms over the suburb of 16,000, whose prime location on the beach and close to LAX had made it a choice residential and business address.

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Behaving like an duchess while living in a suburb, Bucket's monstrous social-climbing schemes were ultimately doomed to failure - while she battled to maintain her dignity.

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A short drive up into the hills, there's a small pocket of woodland on the edge of an upmarket suburb that could reveal a terrible secret.

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“What we are finding here in Chicago and in the surrounding suburbs is a level of intimidation that is unsustainable and, quite frankly, that’s scary to the children we have in our communities,” she said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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