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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
suburbanize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective surrounded by many suburbs
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Examples
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The article points out a couple of interesting things, one of which is explicit: that the renewed kibbutzim are not quite for the most part run inthe way that traditional kibbutzim were run, but rather as, “a kind of suburbanized version of it.”
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Only in 2007 they are less about pure socialism than a kind of suburbanized version ofit.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Kibbutzim and the Failure of Socialism: 2007
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In North America and Australia, the arrival city has been suburbanized, and in the U.S. more immigrants now live in the suburbs than in the central cities.
Urban Magnets Melanie Kirkpatrick 2011
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Unfortunately, small towns have become suburbanized and lost their functionality.
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In a very real way, the pond is a part of everybody's backyard, it's a very suburbanized bit of ocean, and the birds in the neighborhood are mostly suburban not ocean-going birds.
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Their hilliness has allowed them to miss out on cultivation and act as wilderness preserves, though a couple have been partly quarried or suburbanized, and Mount Royal itself is either downtown or park.
Canada 2010
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Does Chicago need more malls, or is this great city getting suburbanized?
Edward Lifson: Chicago Debates -- The Malling of Chicago Edward Lifson 2010
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Does Chicago need more malls, or is this great city getting suburbanized?
Edward Lifson: Chicago Debates -- The Malling of Chicago Edward Lifson 2010
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Does Chicago need more malls, or is this great city getting suburbanized?
Edward Lifson: Chicago Debates -- The Malling of Chicago Edward Lifson 2010
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In a very real way, the pond is a part of everybody's backyard, it's a very suburbanized bit of ocean, and the birds in the neighborhood are mostly suburban not ocean-going birds.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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