exurb
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of exurb
Example Sentences
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But last week he scheduled several, including one at the Angry Elephant, a bar in the Houston exurb of Magnolia.
Riverside, an exurb of Los Angeles, has drawn droves of middle-class families who can’t afford to live on the coast.
Today, the population of this Atlanta exurb, 45 miles northwest of the city, is 280,000—more than 10 times as many people as lived there just 40 years ago.
From Slate
“This is where I grew up,” conservative activist Deborah Flora pointedly stated as Boebert scribbled notes alongside her at a breakfast forum in Castle Rock, a fast-growing exurb on the far edge of Denver’s sprawling metropolitan area.
From Los Angeles Times
Hayward is an exurb of San Francisco, much like South Orange is an exurb of New York, and costs are comparable, he said.
From Los Angeles Times
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