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Discover LudwigThe phrase "hark back to" is correct and can be used in written English
It means to remember or refer back to a past time or situation. For example: We hark back to a simpler era in which people wrote letters and relied on landline phones for communication.
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To finish, I hark back to Peterloo.
But fat bulbs hark back to childhood.
"We think these products hark back to Sony's glory days".
The trial and executions hark back to Stalin.
Most hark back to the War, the 1930s, the Raj.
They hark back to Abstract Expressionism airily, without angst.
The musicals of the season hark back to the classics.
The candidates almost never hark back to that.
But the fliers also hark back to the past.
The agency's challenges today hark back to its earliest days.
The Ligonier portraits hark back to a courtly high style.
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