hunger
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"A little bit of hunger is good for you," says Serge Pizzorno.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The hunger for capital has pushed bond yields higher, even in sovereign debt.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Afghanistan has endured repeated hunger crises in recent decades as it has struggled through civil war and other crises.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
I stayed up many nights just to write, a hunger in my belly and a savage appetite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Seeing her initials makes my stomach feel something worse than hunger.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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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
They are all citizens of winter, prey to the daily hungers of real life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The authors have also known hungers of many kinds, inheriting their ancestors’ “insatiable” appetites — for food and water, but also for connection.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2023
The series sticks with that impetus while expanding our view into the part of Ellie that hungers for family and true care.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2023
Because she was not an animal, and she would not blindly chase her hungers....
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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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
Enjoying heavy rotation on MTV on the wings of “Dancing with Myself” and “White Wedding,” his audience hungered for more.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2024
Only those who hungered for true love, like Seong-hun, had made the cut.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
He cared little for material things but he hungered for respect and he was acutely aware that in the culture in which he lived, money was the prevailing gauge of success.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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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
“Our audiences are hungering for an authentic experience, the work of art placed in front of them,” Mr. Steward said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
“The country is very volatile and hungering for change,” he said.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022
Actually, they were the Simple-Lifers, hungering after a life, which to those who lived it had probably appeared not so Simple, and who had been, therefore, Simple-Lifers themselves.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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