hark
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Indisputably, there are signs—some of which hark back to the dot-com era—that it is.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
The commuters in “Le Métro” hark back to his early streetcar scenes but now there’s an air of mystery to the straphangers, with the central figure’s face obscured and bisected by a subway pole.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
People loved the vintage look of the pink toilets, which hark back to a time when bathrooms — whole houses, really — weren’t quite so bland and boring.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025
The two properties, both built in 1735, hark back to a time when the area was very different.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2025
He was a very plain-featured man, with nothing in his looks or in his dress that made memory cry hark.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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