Definition of "harkens" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of harken. (verb)

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• "Neither Nunberg nor Safire think the phrase harkens back to Rosa Parks or the Montgomery bus boycotts of 1955, when African-Americans protested the law that forced them to sit in the "back of the bus.""
• "The phrase harkens to his 1970s bush war against white-minority rule, and to an earlier uprising in the 1890s against the first"
• "That term harkens back to a book written 35 years ago called"