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suburb

[suhb-urb] / ˈsʌb ɜrb /


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Rubin grew up the middle son of three boys raised in the Boston suburbs.

From The Wall Street Journal

I grew up in the Dallas suburb of Lewisville when it had more gun racks than yoga mats.

From The Wall Street Journal

Fair City is an Irish soap opera that follows the day-to-day dramas of the community who live and work in the fictional north Dublin suburb of Carrigstown.

From BBC

Machado has been in Europe since last month, when she made a dangerous escape from the Caracas suburb where she had been living in hiding for a year.

From The Wall Street Journal

For one thing, there’s money in Dahlonega, the smalltown Atlanta suburb where Anna grew up—and where, during the kind of rainstorm that dissolves evidence, a body is found on the hood of a car.

From The Wall Street Journal