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The peculiar details in his contested fortune hark back to another strange will from 50 years ago, involving yet another Las Vegas-based entrepreneur, known more now for his oddities than his accomplishments: Howard Hughes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Indisputably, there are signs—some of which hark back to the dot-com era—that it is.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

Full Moons have these names that hark back to ancient traditions before modern calendars were used.

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026

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

Sometimes in public, hearing a stranger, I’d hark back to my past.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

Scottish Championship side Dunfermline Athletic have released a shirt that harks back to the one they wore during the 1994-95 season.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Warsh’s preference for saying little harks back to an era when central banks were more mysterious, impersonal institutions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

“It’s like s harks with laser beams,” added Caine, referencing an Austin Powers spy-satire movie.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

While not pink in colour, the name of the April full Moon harks back to ancient traditions before the advent of the modern calendar.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026

He painted it from the heart: the scene harks back to his time in the Borinage, and it reflects his attachment to his own family and to the idea of family, to the ideal family.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

The message harked back to the old U.S. policy of further entwining the American and Chinese economies, breaking with an approach pioneered during the first Trump administration to untangle business ties, largely for national-security reasons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

It harked back to the end of last season, when chanting against the ownership began.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026

In February 1947 the couturier Christian Dior harked back to the rosy autochrome with his first collection, “Corolle,” named for the petaled cup of a flower and later christened the New Look.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

McVay no doubt harked to last season at Dallas, when Stafford’s right thumb hit the turf after catching a two-point conversion pass in the end zone, aggravating an injury he suffered earlier in the game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2024

Now the rebels harked to the proceedings; we saw them watching from the shore, though they could not hear.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

To McKinnon, it comes down to the “tradition of humans telling a story by flickering light” harking back to prehistoric times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

The Hajj involves a series of rituals harking back to Islam’s earliest days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026

This mysterious commodity is the comfort blanket in times of turmoil - usually harking back to glory days and happier times.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026

But that's all changed - now, you see a small visual representation of what's happening with dots on a screen, harking back to how the game looked in the 00s.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2025

And all the time Molly’s mind was harking back to Christmas a year ago, when the Greens had busied themselves preparing such a delightful party for Otoyo and her.

From Molly Brown's Junior Days by Nell Speed