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suburb

[suhb-urb] / ˈsʌb ɜrb /


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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

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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