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  • adjective surrounded by many suburbs

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Examples

  • By contrast, it was the Tory/Liberal national government which suburbanised much of Britain with a building programme in the 1930s that at its height saw 350,000 houses go up in one year.

    The profit motive should not shape the country | Observer editorial 2011

  • Izrael destroys his own credibility by saying that Rector is not sufficiently “suburbanised.”

    "Post-racial" US and Canada, Part 3 2008

  • Izrael destroys his own credibility by saying that Rector is not sufficiently “suburbanised.”

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • This cave that we inhabited looked backwards through chambers that led to our ghostly beginnings; and had not, as yet, been tidied up, or scrubbed clean by electric light, or suburbanised by a Victorian church, or papered by cinema screens.

    Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

  • "In the old days you would see these groups conspicuously settling in inner-city areas," said Professor Richard Webber, who developed the database, "but you can now see how most groups have suburbanised themselves."

    The Guardian World News Jamie Doward 2011

  • It would give them a taste of the power and poetry of the wilderness and offer a reprieve from their cluttered, suburbanised lives, so dependent on machines.

    The Guardian World News Stephen Pax Leonard 2011

  • Great cities such as Manchester, Newcastle, Liverpool, Cardiff and Glasgow were keen to proclaim their greatness once again, after decades during which they had been deliberately depopulated, with even their inner cities suburbanised - by both left and rightwing local and central governments.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • "To live in a suburb, to be 'suburban': these may be pejorative words across the western world, but nowhere have they been pronounced more fiercely than in the world's most suburbanised country, the US."

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • "To live in a suburb, to be 'suburban': these may be pejorative words across the western world, but nowhere have they been pronounced more fiercely than in the world's most suburbanised country, the US."

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • "To live in a suburb, to be 'suburban': these may be pejorative words across the western world, but nowhere have they been pronounced more fiercely than in the world's most suburbanised country, the US."

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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