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suburban

adjective as in provincial

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These residential compounds offer a lifestyle more like Western suburban areas and have gyms, pools, restaurants and other amenities in a self-contained area.

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He was greeted with steely silence, but the joke, if it was that, might well have killed in the classroom of a suburban high school.

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The two-year conflict between Robert “Fish” Amiryan and Ara Artuni at times turned suburban streets in the San Fernando Valley into war zones, federal authorities said.

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"Over the years, we've seen a shift from handwritten to printed prescriptions in cities, but in suburban and rural areas, most are still handwritten."

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The situation is in stark contrast to the rebuilding efforts in more suburban communities, like Santa Rosa and Redding, where construction was buzzing along two years after the flames.

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

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