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suburb

[suhb-urb] / ˈsʌb ɜrb /


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Yehuda Bandel, a 70-year-old retired teacher living in a suburb of the coastal city of Tel Aviv, felt the same joy.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

Those theories ended in 2023, when police arrested Heuermann, a married father-of-two living in Massapequa Park, a quiet Long Island suburb, in a run-down house where he spent his childhood.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

The youngest of three children, he grew up in Richardson, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, with a mother of Italian descent and a Puerto Rican-born father who met in 1970s New York.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

With Beckett about to enter kindergarten at the time, Farr focused her house hunt on neighborhoods with stellar schools, which led her to the Los Angeles suburb of La Cañada Flintridge.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

On October 2, 1932, nine months after Herbert’s death, Adolf Hitler addressed 70,000 Hitler Youth at a special rally in Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti




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