the suburbs
plural noun
: towns or other areas where people live in houses near a larger city
the suburbs of Chicago
also
: one of the suburbs of a city
She left the city and moved to the suburbs.
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Chicago Tribune What had once been a wild valley slowly turned into the suburbs, and Grizzly 399 handled it all with aplomb.
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Michael Hodges, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025
South Africa is violent enough for nastiness to stream out of the ghettos and into the suburbs, and, indeed, onto the farms.
—Jonny Steinberg, Time, 22 May 2025
But by the 50s and 60s, as more and more people headed for the suburbs, demolition in downtown was more common than new construction.
—Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 21 May 2025
Sam Altman, a whiz kid from the suburbs of St. Louis and a Stanford dropout, became OpenAI’s public face.
—Erin Neil, New Yorker, 20 May 2025
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Michael Hodges, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2025
South Africa is violent enough for nastiness to stream out of the ghettos and into the suburbs, and, indeed, onto the farms.
—Jonny Steinberg, Time, 22 May 2025
But by the 50s and 60s, as more and more people headed for the suburbs, demolition in downtown was more common than new construction.
—Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 21 May 2025
Sam Altman, a whiz kid from the suburbs of St. Louis and a Stanford dropout, became OpenAI’s public face.
—Erin Neil, New Yorker, 20 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for the suburbs
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“The suburbs.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20suburbs. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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