hungry
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Ms. Arno’s achievement is to return Celan to mortal scale: ardent in friendship, hungry for recognition, capable of wounded tenderness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
All Wall Street needs to sell SpaceX stock to a hungry public is a semi-plausible narrative.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
The meal wasn’t as good as the pizza I had for just a handful of euros, and I went back to the pizzeria, hungry for more.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026
Hasina Bibi clutched her hungry four-year-old daughter as she waited at an India-Bangladesh border post, trying to leave as fears grow of an Indian crackdown on undocumented migrants.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
He took his monocle from the chain and struck it against a rock, spraying hungry sparks over the pile of tinder.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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