hunger
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Detainees and immigrant rights groups have increasingly challenged conditions at Adelanto in court and through protests such as hunger strikes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
That pattern suggests pacing may have been more strongly connected to familiar daily routines and the expectation of feeding than to hunger itself.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
South Korea’s trade data, seen as a bellwether of AI demand, show few signs that the hunger for chips is ebbing as a torrent of investment in AI infrastructure continues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
And then there is the type of eating that is totally untethered from hunger, desire, or possibly any awareness of eating at all.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
That this nightmare life of hunger and fear that we’ve been living might be over.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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Huge questions for a party that used to dominate Scottish politics and hungers for a way back to power at Holyrood.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
No one hungers for the bad old days—the infamous “Ford to City: Drop Dead” headline ran just months before PS1 opened—but it’s hard not to be nostalgic for the art world of the past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
As a quiet misfit in a foreign place, Daphne hungers for human connection even as she physically deteriorates.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2023
“Yet, our nation hungers for their radical song. Let us not sit back silently...”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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Malcom McLean, a New Jersey commercial shipper who championed the new idea of prepacking cargo into big metal boxes, hungered for a Pentagon contract.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
That added to a quasi “gold rush” among investors who understandably hungered for a piece of the action.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 3, 2026
But beneath the bravado lies a wounded child — the boy who yearned for approval, who hungered for his father’s love but never got it.
From Salon ● May 6, 2024
When she finally felt like she was making decent money doing the news, she still hungered to get into sports.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2024
Within a month, we were receiving The Economist and reading the news we hungered for.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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“Does this mean I get to work more?” she asks, hungering for starring roles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Her own audience, primed to look for conspiracy theories in the wake of a high-profile murder, had been hungering for Owens to challenge the widely accepted version of events.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2026
“The country is very volatile and hungering for change,” he said.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022
Any hoops fan hungering for a return to normal this March might have looked at the bracket when it finally came out and wondered what ever changed.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2022
He had awakened on this morning with a hungering need to bark out orders and have them carried out with speed and efficiency.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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