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suburb
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A residential area located on the outskirts of a city or large town that usually includes businesses that cater to its residents; such as schools, grocery stores, shopping centers, restaurants, convenience stores, etc.
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The word 'suburb' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an area on the outskirts of a city or town that is typically less populated and residential. For example, "The family moved to a quiet suburb outside of the city."
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For the next two weeks, Kamal worked well into the evening in his fortified office in the southern suburb of Arasat, before being sped by armoured convoy across the July 14 Bridge – which had been a target only days earlier – to his home inside the Green Zone.
Navalny lives in a small apartment in the outlying region of Marino, a grey suburb where he says little has changed in the past few years.
Booker-shortlisted The Lowland (Bloomsbury) by Jhumpa Lahiri is an elegantly written novel about two brothers growing up in a lowland suburb of south Calcutta in the 1950s and 60s; the younger becomes involved in the Naxalite movement and is killed by the police.
But another Houston mosque was a target for arsonists in 2011, while in 2006, residents in one suburb mobilised against a plan to build a mosque, claiming that it could become a breeding ground for terrorists and prompting a local farmer to hold pig races on Fridays, a holy day for Muslims.
Considine still lives in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, not far from where he grew up on a council estate in the suburb of Winshill.
Other units from the Islamist militant group have seized much of Anbar province, a desert region to the west of Baghdad, and have reportedly reached Abu Ghraib, a suburb of the capital.
On a tree-lined street in a quiet suburb of north-east Santiago, the two-storey house looks like any middle-class family home.
The coming-of-age Russian drama charts the life and survival of three young teenage girls living a brutalist Moscow suburb.
"Our air force must have done a really good job," said Chaisson, who lives in Metairie, a New Orleans suburb.
A fourth suspect, a 19-year-old male, killed himself on Friday after police surrounded a residence in Timberlea, a suburb of Halifax.
He believed he could change the world, if he just worked hard enough at it," Vice President Joe Biden told mourners, including three Pennsylvania governors, federal judges and hundreds of friends, at Har Zion Temple in Narberth, a Philadelphia suburb.
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