suburb
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Saint-Denis, a suburb of 150,000 people, was among the first places where students began to protest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Kagan was born in the Parisian suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt in 1930 and Soai in Hiroshima in 1950.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
But today, at age 35, he continues to face housing prices in the Washington suburb that put that dream just out of reach.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
The movement started on September 17 at a high school in the Paris suburb of Creteil, in support of teachers striking over a lack of staff and resources.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
He looked out at Mount Hampden, a largely English suburb.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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In the fall of 2020, Damon Oppenheimer unexpectedly found himself living in the suburbs of Boston.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Hines, who has a background as a sex crimes prosecutor, is running against Mike Bouchard Jr. for an open seat in Michigan’s 10th District in the Detroit suburbs.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026
Optimism abounds, even on the city website, which promotes it as “one of the fastest growing suburbs of the San Francisco Bay Area.”
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
I stepped from the air-conditioned compartment onto the station platform, and the motherly breath of the suburbs enfolded me.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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