as in outskirts
the districts adjacent to a city
the migration of families to suburbia and the resulting disintegration of inner-city neighborhoods
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Recent Examples of suburbia
Since then, the workers and their families have turned a mostly white corner of strip-mall suburbia into a Tiny Taipei.
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John Liu, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
People seemed upset at the suggestion that these horrific things could be happening right under your nose in suburbia.
—Keaton Bell, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
By 1979, gas-station lines were causing alarm in suburbia, and knocking the edge off his popularity.
—Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024
This icy-cold (in more ways than one) Ang Lee period piece perfectly depicts the disassociation and isolation inherent in 1970s affluent suburbia (in this case, New Canaan, Conn.).
—Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024
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John Liu, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
People seemed upset at the suggestion that these horrific things could be happening right under your nose in suburbia.
—Keaton Bell, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
By 1979, gas-station lines were causing alarm in suburbia, and knocking the edge off his popularity.
—Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024
This icy-cold (in more ways than one) Ang Lee period piece perfectly depicts the disassociation and isolation inherent in 1970s affluent suburbia (in this case, New Canaan, Conn.).
—Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024
See all Example Sentences for suburbia
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“Suburbia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suburbia. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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