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downtowns

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plural of downtown

as in suburbs

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Recent Examples of downtowns Traditional downtowns have really suffered, and these large shopping malls, like The Veranda, Santana Row … Streets of Brentwood … have really done a disservice to downtown districts. — Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2026

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suburbs

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He was raised by Jamaican immigrants in the Atlanta suburbs in the 1990s and early 2000s.

— Jay Stahl, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
Proposition 50 expanded the Republican share of the 7th District electorate by adding Placerville and GOP-leaning suburbs to the northeast.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2026

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