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Suburbs sprouted like poppies after a spring rain, all connected by 1,100 miles of trolley car tracks.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025

Slater spent time with Eastern Suburbs in Sydney, Australia, and Nottingham, in the English Championship, early in his rugby union career before moving to Leicester in 2010.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2022

Suburbs and satellite towns around big cities, known in French as “les banlieues,” are fertile ground for soccer talents in Europe.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 3, 2022

Suburbs often resist local preservation ordinances, especially those aimed at midcentury or later modern buildings.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2022

The Suburbs are very fruitful, and the Neighbourhood of Paris gives the Inhabitants an Opportunity of putting off their Commodities to Advantage.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von