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Recent Examples of hearkensEventually, the team chose Sacramento, where much of downtown still hearkens to the mid-20th century with block upon block of drab government buildings.—Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2025
That added to fears that the stock market is caught up in an AI bubble that harkens back to the late 1990s, when a feeding frenzy on early internet companies eventually led to the bursting of the dot-com bubble.
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Sean Conlon,Sarah Min,
CNBC,
7 Oct. 2025
The reverse side harkens to images captured of him after an assassination attempt on the political trail in Pennsylvania during his 2024 campaign.
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