hunger
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They see that you have the talent and hunger and they’re receptive to your ask for support.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
The government says the new law is intended to expand economic opportunities for citizens, amid concerns that poverty and hunger could fuel further political unrest.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
The shift is costly but could spur investment in tanks and caverns—and new hunger for oil as countries replenish reserves and build bigger buffers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 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
Their hunger made everyone start obsessing about food.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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
As a quiet misfit in a foreign place, Daphne hungers for human connection even as she physically deteriorates.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2023
Yet, our nation hungers for their radical song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
It wasn’t her fault that she was good at taking care of herself and her hungers.
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
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
Most of the time I was happy not to have to bother with food, but tonight I hungered for a mouthful of pasta, steaming hot, drowned in sauce, dusted with Parmesan.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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
And students are hungering to be back in the hustle and bustle of campus life, Brumbaugh added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2022
“The country is very volatile and hungering for change,” he said.
From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022
Any hoops fan hungering for a return to normal this March might have looked at the bracket when it finally came out and wondered what ever changed.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2022
But, of course, it was my body, hungering, biding its time against the tyranny of my spirit.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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