hanker after

Intelligence officials have repeatedly made clear they hanker after the same generative AI tools that promise to revolutionize swaths of business and modernize economies.

Even though Mbappe is known to hanker after a move to the Bernabeu, and even though his contract runs out in less than 12 months' time, meaning he could join Real for nothing next summer and sign a pre-contract agreement as early as January, his club PSG said no.

Nowadays, the report laments, the discipline is considered by many "to be old-fashioned, hide bound, conservative and boring - a discipline of old men in tweed coats who still hanker after the stuffy and sexist atmosphere of the senior common room."

Elite sports provide us with a proof of excellence that our rational selves know we will never reach, but which our gloriously irrational selves hanker after, knowing there’s no penalty for wishing and hoping.

Perhaps that's because the radical reform of the type William Lewis claims to hanker after did not occur.