'burbs
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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“There is a mocktail menu pretty much everywhere we go, whether we are eating dinner in the city, the ’burbs, or we spend summers in Montauk,” he said.
From Seattle Times • May 5, 2024
“It is the 1st Asian ethnoburb: an ethnic enclave in the ‘burbs that thrives b/c it refuses to assimilate, instead unapologetically catering to its own immigrant community.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2023
They reveal the issues, priorities and absurdities of places, and in the case of Mount’s cartoons, they do that about life in the 'burbs.
From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2022
The Washington Football Team and the San Francisco 49ers are two franchises that left their namesake cities over the past few decades in search of better deals in the ’burbs.
From Slate • Sep. 30, 2021
I suppose I could very well end up in the 'burbs, one day.
From Salon • Jul. 4, 2018
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