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suburbia

noun

sə-ˈbər-bē-ə

Definition of suburbia

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 Get an exclusive look at Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor defending suburbia against dinosaurs in The End of Oak Street. — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 29 May 2026 Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth Eighty-one-year-old Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick lives quietly in suburbia until a neighbor's suspicious death draws attention to her and the decades-old secret she's tried to bury. — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 19 June 2026 But at a time when Silicon Valley is currently abuzz about orbital data centers and ocean-going AI data centers, data center nodes embedded in suburbia may stand on more solid footing—at least until homeowner associations catch wind of them. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 12 May 2026 The actor got his start on Family Ties, an '80s sitcom about the Keaton family, whose matriarch and patriarch were once 1960s radicals now attempting to raise their Reagan-era children in suburbia. — Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for suburbia

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