hanker after
Example Sentences
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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
It could never be said that the All England Club was bullied into hasty change; indeed it is rumoured some members still hanker after long trousers.
From The Guardian • Oct. 19, 2018
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
It creates activity and monotony, but this in the long-run produces a counter-effect, a despairing ennui of the soul, which through machinery has learnt to hanker after the variety of leisure.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
