backstreet
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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
Legal ambiguity over abortions in Kenya is pushing thousands of women to turn to backstreet clinics.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2023
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
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