suburb
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Across the city in a suburb of Beirut, kitchen shelves were stacked with sauces and tins crowded the walls as volunteers prepared green beans and fried rice balls.
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
In El Alto, a predominantly Indigenous suburb of La Paz and a hotbed of dissent, demonstrators briefly blocked access to the city's main international airport.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
The Prince of Wales also recorded a birthday message after being stopped by Mark O'Mahoney during a walkabout of the new Newquay suburb.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
So did Queen Creek, a southeastern suburb of nearly 90,000 people that grew 8.2% in the last measured year.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
He didn’t know what suburb it was: his map had gone with the Scout knife.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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Latin Root "sub" Words
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