suburban
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It’s just like any other house in a suburban neighborhood outside of Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Instead of the suburban setting common to so many cartoons — including Nickelodeon’s “Doug” — “Hey Arnold!” was set firmly in the inner city, a vibrantly gritty amalgam of Seattle, Portland and Brooklyn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
He was a 1964 graduate of Wheaton College in suburban Chicago, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in economics, before completing a master’s degree in education at Northern Illinois University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Flyers’ attempts to beat traffic and get a few more hours at the exclusive summer enclave are rattling the windows of people who believed they had earned a slice of suburban tranquility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
For years, the notion was unproven, somewhere in the realm of received wisdom or suburban myth.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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