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Until the 1990s, most Israeli settlements in the West Bank took one of two forms: large suburban towns near the Green Line—the pre-1967 border—and smaller exurbs deeper in occupied territory.
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Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2024
An exurb of an exurb Anna, Texas, more than 45 miles north of downtown Dallas, is seeing the same kind of migration.
—Mike Schneider, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024
The much smaller Twin Cities exurbs in Wisconsin remained quite purple, though shifted slightly in a Republican direction.
—Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024
In many parts of the country, suburbs and exurbs have seen the biggest population gains in the last decade, while inner cities have often lost residents.
—Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2024
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Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2024
An exurb of an exurb Anna, Texas, more than 45 miles north of downtown Dallas, is seeing the same kind of migration.
—Mike Schneider, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024
The much smaller Twin Cities exurbs in Wisconsin remained quite purple, though shifted slightly in a Republican direction.
—Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024
In many parts of the country, suburbs and exurbs have seen the biggest population gains in the last decade, while inner cities have often lost residents.
—Mira Rojanasakul, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exurb
Noun
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Residents in low-lying coastal suburbs and towns have been urged to evacuate immediately.—
Helen Regan,
CNN,
2 Feb. 2025
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And so beginning this week, students in the city and suburbs alike will observe Black History Month.—
Ron Grossman,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Feb. 2025
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These core use areas, aka prime real estate, were spread out across large expanses of suburbia that the crocs did not use, and were connected by the Intracoastal Waterway, or various canals.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Jan. 2025
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For many, director Tim Burton's 1990 movie Edward Scissorhands — the fantastical tale of a sweet man with scissors for hands adapting to life in suburbia — is beloved.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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No dates or cities have yet been announced; only a photo and brief graphic accompany the news.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
2 Feb. 2025
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The cost of Southwest's flights vary, depending on the arrival date, but 15 flights to the Super Bowl city from the Chiefs' and Eagles' home base have been added, along with 16 return flights from New Orleans to Kansas City and Philadelphia, according to Southwest.com.—
Sydney Borchers,
Fox News,
2 Feb. 2025
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An Israeli Governmental Names Commission came up with Hebrew names to replace formerly Arab and Christian names for different towns and villages on the official map of Israel.—
Christine Leuenberger,
The Conversation,
7 Feb. 2025
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Players in Super Bowl 59 between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles are from those towns, from places large and small.—
George Petras,
USA TODAY,
7 Feb. 2025
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As if the year of the dragon wasn’t finished with us, January 2025 in Los Angeles brought the kind of sudden devastation that could force a postapocalyptic metropolis such as this to reacquaint itself with God, only to declare God dead again as existential crisis demands.—
Harmony Holiday,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Feb. 2025
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Well, nobody is immune to a little fantasy now and then, least of all in a corporatized metropolis like Chongqing, whose streets are lit by neon signs that advertise a life these men can’t even afford to imagine for themselves.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Exurb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exurb. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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