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hanker after
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hanker after someone or something and hanker for someone or something
Rur. to want someone or something; to long for someone or something. I hanker after a nice big beefsteak for dinner.
See also: after


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It is not in Russia's interests to continue to hanker for a Soviet past because, frankly, it's gone and it's good that it's gone," Miliband said.
As the flowers plucked and set in the little bottle on the table still seem to hanker for the sun, nodding in the slightest draft, so I longed for a library loose with rare volumes or a movie theatre's satisfying gloom where a little moon followed the usherette up and down the blue carpeted stairs.
 
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