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hunger

[huhng-ger] / ˈhʌŋ gər /


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Cosm’s domed, 87-foot-diameter wraparound screen surrounds audiences and represents today’s hunger for collective, so-called immersive experiences that place attendees in fantastical environments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Even accounting for human vanity and human hunger it is astonishing, because every big company in Silicon Valley has been targeted by Chinese intelligence agencies—and Silicon Valley knows it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

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

Prof James Betts, who researches how the body handles food and energy at the University of Bath, says a big factor is that our "hunger hormone" ghrelin is generally higher later in the day.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Whether it is from hunger, poison, or sickness, all I know is that I am miserable.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

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

“In so many ways, it felt like the actualization of a lot of these more private hungers and more private desires for sound and experience and collectivity,” she said.

From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 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

And suddenly he was all appeal, full of kid hungers, his knees shaking.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

This was a powerful tonic for the mass of Chinese peasants, who hungered for land reform.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

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

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

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

But after whetting my appetite, “Trayf” left me hungering for more substantive spiritual nourishment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 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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