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Examples
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Democrats have been campaigning on education and transporation and consistently beating Republicans in surburban districts in the last several election cycles.
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It seems that critics of the minimum wage are now arguing that the beneficiaries of higher wages are members of well to do households, such as surburban teenagers.
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He was ambitious to have the appearance of a country estate and avoid the "surburban" look which would be so fatally easy to acquire in the suburban place.
The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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Wildlife have adapted and much of it is now surburban.
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It wasn't just the animal cruelty but her breaking of hunting protocol -- the whole thing stank of a PR exercise designed to portray what is a not very well educated surburban housewife as some kind of tough backwoodsman.
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I just don't think this statement is correct - my guess is that the majority of people in this country are urban or surburban non-hunters who don't have any close relatives who hunt.
Sharp-Dressed Man? 2009
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I just don't think this statement is correct - my guess is that the majority of people in this country are urban or surburban non-hunters who don't have any close relatives who hunt.
Sharp-Dressed Man? 2009
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Wildlife have adapted and much of it is now surburban.
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A self-absorbtion that asks only that they can live a nice surburban life style with new cars, kids on sports teams, and a growing 401K.
The Paradox of Law: The Past as Prologue « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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But consider doing it the Mr. and Mrs. Smith way, where it turns out they both hate the facade of surburban normality, and are much happier when having shootouts on the freeway.
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