All 3 Uses of
suburban
in
Outliers
- Why are these suburban-Atlanta kids acting out the ethos of the frontier?†
Chpt 6suburban = relating to a residential area located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded
- By the end of eighth grade, 84 percent of the students are performing at or above their grade level, which is to say that this motley group of randomly chosen lower-income kids from dingy apartments in one of the country's worst neighborhoods, whose parents, in an overwhelming number of cases, never set foot in a college, do as well in mathematics as the privileged eighth graders of American's wealthy suburbs.†
Chpt 9suburbs = residential areas located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded
- They were looking for an apartment, and after a long search, my father found one in a London suburb.†
Chpt Epil. *suburb = a residential area located near the outer edge of a city where it isn't as crowded