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hanker after



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Intelligence officials have repeatedly made clear they hanker after the same generative AI tools that promise to revolutionize swaths of business and modernize economies.

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2024

Perhaps that's because the radical reform of the type William Lewis claims to hanker after did not occur.

From BBC • May 7, 2019

As we get older, we all hanker after a slower pace of life, right?

From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2019

As people increasingly identify with more than one locality, so they begin to hanker after more than one resting place.

From Economist • Apr. 12, 2018

"Of course any one as rich as she can give as many mittens as she chooses; there are always men enough to hanker after money, but there are some who don't care for it."

From Too Rich A Romance by Streckfuss, Adolph