suburban

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Starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, the film explores what happens to a family who wake up one day to find that their quaint suburban block has moved somewhere else entirely.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026

“We were dirt poor, had big Scottish accents at the time, a family of six siblings, and then coming to very conventional suburban schools,” he said, the memory eliciting a wild-card smile.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

On a warm, early October day in suburban Dallas, I arrived at the first tee at one of the most difficult courses in the country.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

David Lee, a 39-year-old at the suburban gas station outside Washington, fills up his tank twice a week.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

The Levittown of my youth, and of Volpe’s early years in teaching, was the great suburban dream before the invention of the dream’s antidotes—video games, cable TV, the Internet.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove