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Each bag or box required personal flourishes for each order, harkening back to the restaurant’s old soigne system, which recorded guests’ allergies or birthdays or the wine they mentioned they liked that one time.

From Eater

Slicker than Insecure, lighter than Dead to Me, less political than its Starz predecessor Vida, it harkens back to an era when viewers turned to television for entertainment and escapism more than art and cultural commentary.

From Time

The festival harkens back to the 1500s and lasts for 10 days to mark the time it took the goddess Durga to battle and beat an evil demon.

From Ozy

This idea harkens back to San Diego Unified’s Vision 2020 plan, which aimed to put a quality school in every neighborhood.

Even for an industry that never met a hit title it wasn’t ready to remake, revive, reimagine or reboot, this constant harkening back to the shows people in their 30s and 40s watched as kids feels egregious.

From Time

In some ways, Galeotti said the leaks of intercepted phone calls harken back to the Soviet era.

He is said to harken back to a better time, when senators put party aside yadda yadda.

Or will it harken back to its true, indie roots-to a time when only the cool kids knew who Parker Posey and Chloe Sevigny were?

Of the two wells Harken drilled in Bahrain, both came up dry.

Bush sold the Harken stock so he could buy a small percentage—just 1.8 percent—of the Texas Rangers baseball team.

And now you shall hear how it befell Sir Tristram thereafter; so harken to what followeth.

But General Ward was too conservative a soldier to harken to any such daring plan.

Without in the entrance of the crypt some great-lunged fanatic was calling the multitude to harken to the prophetess.

Harken now and I will tell thee how thou mightst give him the deathly stroke through the coils of his mail.

Harken also to Solomon, and beware of hasty gathering of riches: Qui festinat ad divitias, non erit insons.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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