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
From suburbia, springs the surreal Burton grew up in Burbank, California, a land of eternal sunshine.
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Tacita Quinn, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
For his sophomore outing, 1988’s Big Top Pee-wee, Reubens relocated his alter ego from suburbia to a pastoral setting, where Pee-wee cared for talking animals while working on cutting-edge agricultural experiments like hot dog trees.
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024
Because a Parking Lot Next to a Greyhound Bus Stop Was Quite the Scene …
Photo: Matt Weinberger
Parking lots are for angsty teenagers stuck in suburbia — and, this year, for every hot, young clout chaser in New York.
—The Editors, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2024
But while Toth’s travels cut across a wide swath of the mid-century world, Corbet’s production had a much smaller footprint: Most of the film — including its depiction of 1950s American suburbia — was shot in Budapest.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 30 Nov. 2024
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Tacita Quinn, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
For his sophomore outing, 1988’s Big Top Pee-wee, Reubens relocated his alter ego from suburbia to a pastoral setting, where Pee-wee cared for talking animals while working on cutting-edge agricultural experiments like hot dog trees.
—Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024
Because a Parking Lot Next to a Greyhound Bus Stop Was Quite the Scene …
Photo: Matt Weinberger
Parking lots are for angsty teenagers stuck in suburbia — and, this year, for every hot, young clout chaser in New York.
—The Editors, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2024
But while Toth’s travels cut across a wide swath of the mid-century world, Corbet’s production had a much smaller footprint: Most of the film — including its depiction of 1950s American suburbia — was shot in Budapest.
—Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 30 Nov. 2024
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“Suburbia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suburbia. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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