hunger
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Over time, boredom, anxiety or habit can trigger the urge even when the hunger has disappeared.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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
It helps control automatic processes essential for survival, including breathing, sleeping, heartbeat regulation and hunger.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
In our Sept. 1 op-ed, we argued that the purpose of development banks is development: less poverty, hunger and death among the world’s poor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Her face had fear in it, and hunger.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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
The authors have also known hungers of many kinds, inheriting their ancestors’ “insatiable” appetites — for food and water, but also for connection.
From New York Times ● May 17, 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
Election administrators in many states have long hungered for better access to federal information on citizenship status.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2026
That added to a quasi “gold rush” among investors who understandably hungered for a piece of the action.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 3, 2026
This was a powerful tonic for the mass of Chinese peasants, who hungered for land reform.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Begin when all the rest who left behind them headlong death in battle or at sea had long ago returned, while he alone still hungered for home and wife.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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
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
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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