hunger
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Earlier this year, Leo warned that many societies were seeking to push God out of public life, even as he saw “a growing hunger for God.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
It was a painful way to learn what a final costs, and it left him with a hunger that never really went away.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Determining which receptors BRP activates could help explain its effects on hunger and metabolism.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
This hormone helps regulate blood sugar and signals that influence hunger and feelings of fullness.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
Molly set aside her bagel and—trying to ignore the creeping hunger that no bagel could ever satisfy—began to record on her phone.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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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
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
Yet, our nation hungers for their radical song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
They were not supposed to try and sate their hungers with demons and the dead.
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
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
But while she hungered for education, academic strictures rarely suited her, and her methods, ahead of their time, struck many university gatekeepers as too unorthodox.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2023
For he hungered to learn, to gain power.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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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
Cheered on by a studio audience hungering for fireworks and fisticuffs — “Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry!”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2023
And students are hungering to be back in the hustle and bustle of campus life, Brumbaugh added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2022
Based on a 1992 movie, this musical features Billy Crystal returning to the role of Buddy Young Jr., a has-been comic who is hungering for a comeback and reconnecting with family.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2022
They were her secret rebellion, her heart hungering, her little underground of one.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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