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hankers after

verb as in desire strongly

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Juan Montoya hankers after the peace and co-existence of the past and cannot fathom the Socialists’ decision to exhume Franco from the Valley of the Fallen last month.

Pogba, a World Cup winner for France, hankers after the freedom to play with more elan; Mourinho sulks about Pogba, being denied a defender and Woodward not supporting him publicly to assert his managerial authority.

Listening to him talk, it’s tempting to wonder if he hankers after the era when he was American rock’s public enemy No 1, the primary source of outrage for conservative watchdog organisations.

And there’s anyone who hankers after YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and the thousands of other overseas websites that are banned in China, including TIME.com.

From Time

It's not just the fabulously rich elite that hankers after the old economic order.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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