hunger
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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
Meta is notorious for its hunger for personal data.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
“Every time you honor your hunger, you are repairing,” Tribole says.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
It contains neural circuits that regulate hunger, which are among the systems influenced by weight-loss drugs such as semaglutide.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
“A ghost is a hunger, one so strong it outlives the body.”
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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
Wong hungers for familiarity with her Chinese name, the memory of which has become so faint she calls upon her mother to repeat it to her.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2023
Yet, our nation hungers for their radical song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
Some hungers were delusional, but that didn’t make them any less real.
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
Tom was of course not a nincompoop, but a serious, thoughtful person who hungered to add substance to sketch comedy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
Within a month, we were receiving The Economist and reading the news we hungered for.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
On top of that, investors hungering for a new CEO had hoped Cornell’s replacement would arrive from outside Target; instead, the board picked a 20-year company veteran.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2025
Actors from all ranks are clearly hungering for the kind of substance and freedom that the stage can uniquely provide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
Be that as it may, the question remains: Is Broadway hungering for two jukebox musicals based on “Romeo and Juliet”?
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 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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