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  • noun Plural form of suburbanite.

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Examples

  • Given those constraints, what would work for both environmentalists and suburbanites is the English-style commuter train-based suburb.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Future of the Suburbs 2009

  • The other thing about "smart growth" suburbanites is that they tend to vote the best candidate on the growth issue alone.

    Special Election Update 2005

  • Of course, “community leaders” started jumping in and making accusations that the suburbanites were a bunch of racists and that was the only reason for their actions.

    Racist Pee Wee Football Fans Taunt Black Children 2006

  • Morning Brew: March 3rd, 2009 I bet a 42 tokens that the 'urban crusaders' who name-call suburbanites are in fact former suburbanites themselves.

    blogTO 2009

  • Yes, the ''suburbanites'' can just drive to my 'hood and say, ''Thank God I can go to Winton Terrace and save money on drugs and sex, rather than paying more for it in my residence.''

    Gun Plot Discovered At Lakota Nathaniel Livingston 2006

  • Let's just say it, the word ''suburbanites'' has a whole new characteristic, meaning that marjority of whites go to poor black neighborhoods like Winton Terrace for drugs and sex with young girls who crave to wear clothings like their favorite r&b star.

    Gun Plot Discovered At Lakota Nathaniel Livingston 2006

  • It was originally settled by livestock farmers who staked out five - to ten-acre plots on the quiet eastern reaches of Golden Gate Park; with the expansion of the city's rail service to the area, "suburbanites" followed, building the splendid Victorians that are so prized today.

    There's Something In A Sunday Muller, Marcia 1989

  • The town of Oakdale is at the present time a flourishing place, inhabited principally by "suburbanites," for it lies not very far from New York; but the Reverend Austin Davis, who was the spiritual guardian of most of them, had come to Oakdale some twenty and more years ago, when it was only a little village, with a struggling church which it was the task of the young clergyman to keep alive.

    King Midas: a Romance Upton Sinclair 1923

  • I must confess that I’m highly amused at the idea of suburbanites in upstate New York and Orange County reading Frey’s gritty memoir.

    The Ultimate Development in the Frey-Eggers “Best Writer of My Generation” Fiasco : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2005

  • I think many of you are confused and think that this line is intended for 'suburbanites' who would drive their car to the station, park it there, and board the train for the airport.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

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