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  • verb Present participle of suburbanize.

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Examples

  • Yet his district, in Lexington County, was rapidly developing and suburbanizing, and Haley personified its new face.

    Woman On the Verge 2010

  • But at East River Plaza, suburbanizing the Manhattan shopping experience has come at a cost: The place is less friendly to the many consumers arriving on foot.

    Suburban-Style Shopping Comes at Cost 2010

  • As a consequence, most of the mortgages went to suburbanizing America, and it suburbanized it racially.

    Ronald B. Robinson: Republicans' 4% Mortgage "Stimulus" Is Latest Ponzi Scheme 2009

  • As a friend who worked in economic development there told me, the city center is simply imploding, while its non-growing population just keeps moving futher away by suburbanizing the surrounding farmland.

    Greensboro's Architectural Drought David Wharton 2007

  • The Lone Wacko blog is reporting that orange growers in the Central Valley are finding it harder and harder to find field hands as illegal aliens are being drawn to work in the construction boom that has hit the quickly suburbanizing farm belt.

    Mayor Villaraigosa & Family Watch Bush Speech 2006

  • The Lone Wacko blog is reporting that orange growers in the Central Valley are finding it harder and harder to find field hands as illegal aliens are being drawn to work in the construction boom that has hit the quickly suburbanizing farm belt.

    Archive 2006-01-01 2006

  • Asian immigrants are concentrating into a number of key states but are not segregating themselves into distinct neighborhoods as heavily as might be anticipated, and, like Hispanics, are suburbanizing rapidly.

    The Population of the United States Douglas L. Anderton 1997

  • To be sure, these same wheels are lessening, to some extent, the congestion of the great centres of population, and lightening their shadows by extending them -- spreading them -- but none the less are the shadows spreading faster from the coming of the country to the city than of the suburbanizing of the city.

    The French in the Heart of America John Finley 1901

  • Miltner RJ, White D, Yoder C (2004) The biotic integrity of streams in urban and suburbanizing landscapes.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jeremy Lundholm et al. 2010

  • These counties have been the major engines for population growth during the last 30 years, with the majority of growth in the suburbanizing rural municipalities along the Route 9 corridor in northern Ocean, in the western portions of Monmouth and in southern Middlesex.

    unknown title 2009

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