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hunger

[huhng-ger] / ˈhʌŋ gər /


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South Korea’s trade data, seen as a bellwether of AI demand, show few signs that the hunger for chips is ebbing as a torrent of investment in AI infrastructure continues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

While food markets have reopened, many cannot afford the goods on offer, there is still extreme poverty and hunger with reliance on charitable handouts.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

What’s more, for many hunger brings the threat of fullness.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

It contains neural circuits that regulate hunger, which are among the systems influenced by weight-loss drugs such as semaglutide.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

In her restless hunger, she had not died.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

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

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

Because she was not an animal, and she would not blindly chase 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

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

Newspapers were more valuable to political prisoners than gold or diamonds, more hungered for than food or tobacco; they were the most precious contraband on Robben Island.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

Actors from all ranks are clearly hungering for the kind of substance and freedom that the stage can uniquely provide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 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

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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