hanker after
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Even if he does still hanker after a prominent political role, he will almost certainly be barred from getting one.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
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
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
The death of an uncle, who had occupied the see of Cortona with great pomp, induced the young Guicciardini to hanker after an ecclesiastical career.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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