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or harkened back (to)
as in remembered
to bring back to mind
an elderly man who liked to hearken back to "the good old days"
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Annie remembered one staging of Puccini's Turandot where the emperor had been lowered from the ceiling.—
Danielle Parker,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026 -
Igra added that a friend who traversed the route months later and wound up in the jail as well also remembered the soup and had been telling her children about it for years.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
14 Apr. 2026
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Poppy Pattinson Called up to her first senior squad in February and made her debut in the second half against Ukraine, but the 25-year-old was not recalled this time around.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2026
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Guests recalled mingling with Lowell Weicker, Connecticut’s longtime senator and governor.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Hearkened back (to).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hearkened%20back%20%28to%29. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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