Definition of "harken" []

• Variant of hearken. (verb)

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• "This, of the former President Bill Clinton with candidate, the wife Hillary Clinton and Chelsea, all three of them together, the former first family, and what they did is essentially are trying to show a personal support, family support, but also to kind of harken back to the days of the White House when times were good, when the economy was strong, when the country was at peace."
• "Those stripes kind of harken back to an old-fashioned ice cream parlor, and we've got the ice cream in a bowl."
• ""So we kind of harken back to that, when anything goes.""