hunger
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Over time, boredom, anxiety or habit can trigger the urge even when the hunger has disappeared.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
In this dynamic, her feelings, including her own hunger cues, came last.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
It helps control automatic processes essential for survival, including breathing, sleeping, heartbeat regulation and hunger.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
In our Sept. 1 op-ed, we argued that the purpose of development banks is development: less poverty, hunger and death among the world’s poor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
By the end of each day, he had a bleach headache plus a hunger headache.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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 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
And while Schuyler’s novel says that Black America hungers to be white, Black Thought’s remix asserts the Black experience can be interrogated independent of whiteness.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
“Ghosts are human hungers, and humans don’t have to be right.”
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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
Election administrators in many states have long hungered for better access to federal information on citizenship status.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2026
That added to a quasi “gold rush” among investors who understandably hungered for a piece of the action.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 3, 2026
Only those who hungered for true love, like Seong-hun, had made the cut.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
Even in the dark, he hungered to see, and only after the fiercest fight to keep his eyes open did he fall asleep.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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
It has also served as a watershed moment for the business-news landscape, making a group of internet influencers go-to sources for people hungering for news of FTX and SBF, as Bankman-Fried is known.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023
But before she drops the curtain on “Better Things,” is she perhaps hungering for that Emmy win?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 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
That’s what comes of hungering for something: You forget to check if it’s rotten before you gobble it down.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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