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hunger

[huhng-ger] / ˈhʌŋ gər /


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He once joined a five-day hunger strike in support of hotel workers.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

In 2025, the United Nations warned that 17 million Yemenis were struggling to eat and a further million faced extreme hunger.

From Barron's Sep. 14, 2026

Among its many jobs, the hypothalamus helps regulate hunger, hormones, reproduction and body temperature.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

Temperatures dropped as low as -12C one night, he said "as a practical person I was trying to prioritise comfort and warmth, mitigating hunger as much as possible," he said.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Jonathan recognized the noise as Moose’s hunger whine; the dog did it promptly at six every night unless Jonathan fed him before then.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

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

Yet, our nation hungers for their radical song.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 25, 2023

“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

They were not supposed to try and sate their hungers with demons and the dead.

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

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

Even as a little girl she hungered for learning as a child does for cookies in the late afternoon.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 14, 2022

He had awakened on this morning with a hungering need to bark out orders and have them carried out with speed and efficiency.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy




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