suburb
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The clean subdivisions springing up around McAllen could be in any prosperous suburb in Florida or Arizona.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026
In a suburb of Damascus, I joined Fatima Saleh Eid at an open-air market for her weekly shop.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Florence Portelli, the mayor of Taverny, a Paris suburb, was mortified by the call for self-defense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
The game will take place at France’s national stadium in Saint-Denis, a suburb just north of Paris, which hosted the 1998 World Cup final and track events at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
The team came from one of the Atlanta area’s most expensive soccer academies, the Concorde Football Club, in the upscale suburb of Alpharetta.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
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Imagine calculating the shortest route between two neighborhoods in the Mumbai suburbs.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Now, as many department stores struggle to keep locations open, and as suburbs have grown wealthier, trunk shows are popping up in new places and taking new forms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Patterson is not expected to attend in person and watched her appeal by live video link from her prison, the maximum-security Dame Phyllis Frost Centre in Melbourne's western suburbs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
Chloé Brani, a 21-year-old student from the suburbs, carried a sign that summed it up: “We’re all fed up.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
The mere suggestion of it, I understood now, caused stable, middle-class families to bail preemptively for the suburbs, worried their property values would drop.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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