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BMW's Minis have always carried styling designed to hark back to the very British original.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

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

The 11 songs on the album bridge storytelling with classic country and folk sounds that hark back to the ‘70s, a la songs like the Eagles’ “Wasted Time.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025

Further west, he and Fa often camped in summer to gather lime hark for rope-making; but this part looked unfamiliar.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

That point harks back to a similar, unfulfilled promise by his father, who instead oversaw soaring deforestation rates.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 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

In both tone and structure, it harks back to the kind of theatrical properties that May and Lotta excelled in during the first half of the 20th century.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

It harks back to the beginning of his career where he both studied the famous Catalan coach, who also worked at Bayern Munich, and his footballing education in his native Italy.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 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 energy summit harked back to a time in the once-prosperous South American nation when oil was the engine of growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

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

There was no trace of the ideologue as she harked back to the origins of “John Proctor Is the Villain.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2025

It also harked back to her own traditional Orthodox upbringing where the home was run by one dominating figure with strict rules and regulations.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

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

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

The harking back to the Civil War isn’t in vain.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025

"I suppose," said Ranny, harking back, "some women are like that."

From The Combined Maze by May Sinclair