suburbanite
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of suburbanite
Example Sentences
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Pearlman was initially the classic O.C. suburbanite, preferring to focus on the good life instead of local matters.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2025
“I was a suburbanite kid who got a dose of exposure to what was happening to black Americans in my own city.”
From Washington Times • Jul. 25, 2023
She added that as her children grew up and learned who they wanted to be in life, “I learned who I wasn’t — one of those card-playing, country-club suburbanite ladies.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2021
One suggested that “Jeff Bezos wearing a cowboy hat is the final form of every suburbanite who drives an F150.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2021
And it’s me alone, Ed Kennedy, a less than ordinary suburbanite, who has the chance to end it.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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