harken

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That harkens to the present day, and whether rising concerns about disruptions to the oil market could push an economy closer to recession, said AlphaSimplex’s Kaminski.

From MarketWatch

Easily one of 2025’s best albums, “Whiskey Lies & Alibis” by William Beckmann, released in June, harkens back to the finest country music of the 1990s while keeping a boot planted firmly in the present.

From Salon

In 1957, the Music Center was a dream, Dorothy Chandler having only begun fundraising two years earlier for an arts Olympus on a well-scrubbed Grand Avenue that would harken a new business district.

From Los Angeles Times

This classic plot hook harkens back to “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “A Trip to the Moon,” and if I had to place a bet, it’s the oldest story mankind’s got.

From Los Angeles Times

Most directly, “The Antidote” harkens to Eleanor Catton’s Booker award winning “The Luminaries,” which centers around the mysteries of a gold rush port town in New Zealand.

From Los Angeles Times