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Definitions for harkening
harken·ing

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of harkening in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of harkening in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of harkening in a Sentence

  1. Ilya Somin:

    Some cemeteries could be good places for these monuments because there they are just meant to commemorate the dead and not honor an unjust cause, there are cemeteries in Germany where the dead from World War I and World War are buried and there is more about remembering those who died while not harkening back to the cause.

  2. Cori Bush:

    Family separation is rooted in our nation's history, let's be clear, harkening back to Black children being torn from their mothers' arms at slave auction blocks.

  3. Johanna Schoen:

    For a long time, opponents of abortion have charged that abortion threatens those deemed undesirable in society, in arguing that Indiana's law that bans abortion based solely on race, disability or sex, could one day pass legal muster, Thomas is harkening back to the eugenics movement of the early 20th century.

  4. Krystyn Stowe:

    There’s been a lot of conversation about how ‘what is old is now what is cool,’ so we wanted to look back into our archives, so the can itself is harkening back to the design of the late 1970s.

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