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hunger

[huhng-ger] / ˈhʌŋ gər /


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They need to go back to basics, make sure they've got the fight, make sure they've got the hunger because they've got the talent - I know they've got the talent.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

World Food Program recently estimated that El Niño could push almost 50 million more people into acute hunger by next year, with southern Africa and Central America particularly at risk.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

The dark chocolate aroma therefore appeared to reduce appetite mainly by decreasing hunger and increasing perceived fullness.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

While they might be energy hungry, there are ways in which electricity system operators can manage that hunger so that supply and demand are matched.

From BBC Sep. 15, 2026

“Do you really think you can live happily as a peasant? You’ve never known hunger, Catriona. You’ve never known what it’s like to want things you can’t have.”

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

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

Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

When she finally felt like she was making decent money doing the news, she still hungered to get into sports.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 7, 2024

Once I had devoured the vast Herball, I hungered for more than the knowledge of common things that grew beneath me.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

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

But before she drops the curtain on “Better Things,” is she perhaps hungering for that Emmy win?

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 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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