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Primary Ager >95% of votes in Rep. Primary Edwards
>95% of votes in
Texas 8th District ›
Northern Houston exurbs
Dem.
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New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
The urge to tame big corporate landlords is bubbling over among locals in woodsy Paulding County, Georgia, an Atlanta exurb where church steeples and old graveyards punctuate the rolling hills, and an 18-foot fiberglass Wonder Woman waves at drivers.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 10 Feb. 2026
In Anani, an exurb a dozen miles east of Abidjan, our cars left the highway and drove through sand and scrub to reach 2Africa’s beach manhole.
—Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
Nick’s parents are divorced, and the panic attacks begin after Nick, having become incorrigible in adolescence, is ordered by his mom to go live with his dad in a subdivision called Chariot Courts, in Libertyville, Illinois, an exurb of Chicago.
—Emily Witt, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
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New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
The urge to tame big corporate landlords is bubbling over among locals in woodsy Paulding County, Georgia, an Atlanta exurb where church steeples and old graveyards punctuate the rolling hills, and an 18-foot fiberglass Wonder Woman waves at drivers.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 10 Feb. 2026
In Anani, an exurb a dozen miles east of Abidjan, our cars left the highway and drove through sand and scrub to reach 2Africa’s beach manhole.
—Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
Nick’s parents are divorced, and the panic attacks begin after Nick, having become incorrigible in adolescence, is ordered by his mom to go live with his dad in a subdivision called Chariot Courts, in Libertyville, Illinois, an exurb of Chicago.
—Emily Witt, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
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James Broadnax, 37, is set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday, April 30, for the 2008 double murder of Stephen Swan and Matthew Butler, two producers of Christian music killed during a robbery outside their studio in the Dallas suburb of Garland.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2026
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Felicia Gomes, 38, drove in from the western suburbs near Schaumburg to kneel in the dirt and help with the planting.—
Eva Remijan-Toba,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
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Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor star as a couple living on this sci-fi movie’s titular street, which becomes ripped from suburbia and lands in a mysterious place.—
Mark Meszoros,
Twin Cities,
25 Apr. 2026
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Set in present-day American suburbia, The ’Burbs follows a young couple who have reluctantly relocated to the husband’s childhood home.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Apr. 2026
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To close out a busy Day 2, the Steelers selected a mauling guard with a mullet, who will come to a city where that haircut never went out of style.—
Mike DeFabo,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of former President Islam Karimov, is behind bars in Uzbekistan as the trial opens in a Swiss federal criminal court in the southern city of Bellinzona.—
Jamey Keaten,
Fortune,
27 Apr. 2026
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The story is set in 2013, in a town in an unnamed New England state.—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2026
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Boasting 37 miles of pure electric power, the NX450h+ certainly succeeds for consumers looking to float around town.—
Marc D Grasso,
Hartford Courant,
25 Apr. 2026
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From Atlantic beaches to Western mountains to central metropolises, there’s a destination suited to every type of traveler.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
26 Apr. 2026
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Viewed from certain perspectives—the perspective of history, the perspective of the roughly one quarter of the world that was once colonized by Britain—London is a metropolis built on crime.—
Mark O’Connell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Exurb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exurb. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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