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Recent Examples of hearken
The arguments that monetarists present hearkens to the prepositions taken by the metallists in the debate between metallists and chartalists.
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Vipin Bharathan, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
The bold World of Beer signage and Wild Wing Cafe mural also hearken to its past.
—Charlotte Observer, 5 Aug. 2025
An iron horse hearkens to the railroad, and what the railroad brought to the West, which was expansion, and thereby Native people were somewhat driven back by the expansion of the railroad in the West.
—Lisa De Los Reyes, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2025
My first impressions were of a gorgeous restaurant and bar that hearkens in style to the glory days of hotel dining with its art deco touches and soaring ceilings.
—Brad Schmitt, Nashville Tennessean, 11 Feb. 2025
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Vipin Bharathan, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
The bold World of Beer signage and Wild Wing Cafe mural also hearken to its past.
—Charlotte Observer, 5 Aug. 2025
An iron horse hearkens to the railroad, and what the railroad brought to the West, which was expansion, and thereby Native people were somewhat driven back by the expansion of the railroad in the West.
—Lisa De Los Reyes, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2025
My first impressions were of a gorgeous restaurant and bar that hearkens in style to the glory days of hotel dining with its art deco touches and soaring ceilings.
—Brad Schmitt, Nashville Tennessean, 11 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hearken
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When Gu drops into the halfpipe, listening to American rap, her brain is still working at 100mph, sometimes visualizing a takeoff one second before performing her trick.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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For listening to audiobooks on long flights, my grandma swears by these Shokz bone conduction headphones.—
Anna Popp,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Feb. 2026
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Explosions have also been heard in several other Iranian cities but the extent of the damage or if any senior officials were killed is still being determined.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
28 Feb. 2026
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Others didn’t want to hear explanation, suspicious of a larger culture that considers anti-Blackness the usual weather, on some psychic level, basically tolerable.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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“Hearken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hearken. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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