See hark back in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back. So he turned his weary horse's head, and made his way back along the road to the spot where his spoor struck into it.",
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"ref": "1881, W[illiam] E[dward] Norris, “A Racecourse and a Cathedral”, in Matrimony. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 76–77:",
"text": "Mr. Flemyng, who had been assuaging his thirst with more champagne during the afternoon, had harked back to the subject of his morning's discourse, and was laying down an authoritative scheme of ethics, in the course of which sundry hard words, such as transcendentalism, pseudo-materialism and the like, lost a syllable here and there.",
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"ref": "2006 September 11, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-12-22:",
"text": "Harking back to the theme of a series of speeches he [George W. Bush] delivered last week, he said he was reminded that \"there's still an enemy out there that would like to inflict the same kind of damage again.\"",
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"sense": "of hounds: to retrace a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey",
"word": "hakea jälki uudelleen"
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"sense": "of hounds: to retrace a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey",
"word": "auf etw. zurückgreifen"
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"sense": "of hounds: to retrace a course in order to pick up the lost scent of prey",
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"word": "palata"
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