as in town
an community near a larger city
a small suburb outside of Dallas
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Another man was arrested in the Parisian suburb of Aubervilliers, where both men are from.
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Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
The suspects, both in their thirties, are residents of the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, home to some of Paris’s poorest and most populated suburbs.
—News Desk, Artforum, 27 Oct. 2025
Her idea caught fire among the newspaper’s readers, inspiring the opening of the Illinois Prairie Path in the Chicago suburbs a few years later.
—Pam Leblanc, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
According to Le Parisien newspaper, the men arrested are from the Paris suburbs.
—Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 26 Oct. 2025
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Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
The suspects, both in their thirties, are residents of the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, home to some of Paris’s poorest and most populated suburbs.
—News Desk, Artforum, 27 Oct. 2025
Her idea caught fire among the newspaper’s readers, inspiring the opening of the Illinois Prairie Path in the Chicago suburbs a few years later.
—Pam Leblanc, Outside, 27 Oct. 2025
According to Le Parisien newspaper, the men arrested are from the Paris suburbs.
—Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 26 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for suburb
Noun
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Your homes may have been damaged or destroyed and your communities and towns no longer look the same.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Mulroney, who grew up in a small Quebec town, had an ideological affinity with the emerging trends of privatization and deregulation in 1980s Anglo-American conservatism.—
Dónal Gill,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In the show, Marshall says his father moved to Eerie to study it as the most normal city in the United States.—
Jenny Porter Tilley,
IndyStar,
27 Oct. 2025
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Originally an agricultural town, cemeteries began to take root in Colma after a 1901 ordinance banned new burials within San Francisco’s city limits, a decision driven by limited real estate and a booming population.—
Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Suburb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suburb. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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