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Pitney Bowes started its Indian operations long before the current wave, setting up in Noida, an exurb of New Delhi, and Pune, an industrial city near Mumbai.
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Alex Travelli, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Pitney Bowes started its Indian operations long before the current wave, setting up in Noida, an exurb of New Delhi, and Pune, an industrial city near Mumbai.
—Alex Travelli, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
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
Many of its workers live in D.C.'s surrounding suburbs and exurbs.
—Andrew Solender, Axios, 8 Mar. 2025
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Alex Travelli, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Pitney Bowes started its Indian operations long before the current wave, setting up in Noida, an exurb of New Delhi, and Pune, an industrial city near Mumbai.
—Alex Travelli, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
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
Many of its workers live in D.C.'s surrounding suburbs and exurbs.
—Andrew Solender, Axios, 8 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exurb
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Ramaswamy, who grew up in the Cincinnati suburb of Evendale and graduated from St. Xavier High School, is holding the town hall as concerns and outrage grow over the street fight that took place in the early morning hours of July 26.—
Scott Wartman,
The Enquirer,
1 Aug. 2025
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Rainfall across the mid-Atlantic and Northeast has already been above normal this summer — especially in parts of eastern Pennsylvania, central New Jersey, northern Maryland, and the DC suburbs — leaving soils saturated and primed for rapid runoff and flooding even without extreme amounts of rain.—
Briana Waxman,
CNN Money,
31 July 2025
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Some of Sunny’s smartest plots put the gang deeply outside of their comfort zones, and, well, Mac and Dennis trying to make it in suburbia certainly fits the bill.—
Rachel Simon,
Vulture,
9 July 2025
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Wasson's saw growth in suburbia as an opportunity to branch out.—
Indianapolis Star,
IndyStar,
2 July 2025
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According to Retirement Living, here are the 10 best cities to retire in California: 1.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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An Israeli source told CNN on Friday morning that Witkoff had arrived at the aid site in the southern city of Rafah that is run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).—
Ibrahim Dahman,
CNN Money,
1 Aug. 2025
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Deputies responded to a residence in Hilliard, a small town northwest of Jacksonville, around 8 p.m. Thursday, but got no response from anyone inside and found multiple shooting victims upon entering, Leeper said.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 July 2025
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The book is a loose spinoff to the author’s 2024 enemies-to-lovers romance How My Neighbor Stole Christmas, about two rivals who meet while competing in their town's annual holiday contest.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
25 July 2025
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This find is the first time a Caracol king has been identified over the decades of research at the site, which was a dominant Maya metropolis before its abandonment by 900 AD.—
Jenna Sundel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
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Shanghai is the third-largest city in the world, with a population of just over 40 million, and is one of the most vibrant metropolises in the country.—
John Wogan,
Travel + Leisure,
8 July 2025
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“Exurb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exurb. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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