backstreet

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It's a situation akin to removing the "sickest patients" from hospitals and placing them in backstreet clinics, according to Anders Bach-Mortensen, an associate professor of social care at Roskilde University.

From BBC • May 20, 2026

Today’s forgotten backstreet can be tomorrow’s “south of…” or “north of….” the new hot place, or adjacent to the new hot place.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 13, 2025

And Justino didn’t sweat away the months in this compact gym in a gritty industrial backstreet in Orange County simply for a paycheck.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2022

“As a teenager I nearly bled to death after a backstreet abortion,” Josephine Kamara, an activist, said in a statement.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2022

“Sometimes the story is growing in squalid backstreet bars, Dockside in Tarbean.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss