hunger
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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
And then there is the type of eating that is totally untethered from hunger, desire, or possibly any awareness of eating at all.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
They said the length of time it took to arrange the meeting, particularly following the hunger strikes, was "extremely concerning".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
It helps control automatic processes essential for survival, including breathing, sleeping, heartbeat regulation and hunger.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
As he followed the full-grown taillesses through the Bright Soft Cold, he struggled against the hunger gnawing his belly, and the muzzle-watering smell of the lemmings just a pounce away.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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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
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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
L.A. hungered to emerge from the shadow of neighboring San Francisco, to position itself as a place of national, even global import.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
For he hungered to learn, to gain power.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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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
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 before she drops the curtain on “Better Things,” is she perhaps hungering for that Emmy win?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 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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