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hunger

[huhng-ger] / ˈhʌŋ gər /


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The medications’ power to erase feelings of hunger and satiation threatens to upend the industry’s model for growth, where success has often meant selling as much food as possible.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Rake-thin men, their shorts made many sizes too big by hunger, pick through mountains of trash for food, plastic or anything they might be able to use or sell.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

Another group lacked the receptor in the hypothalamus, an important brain region involved in regulating hunger and body weight.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

The question is will Shields train her to rush the passer so he can practice his blocking techniques against someone with agility and a hunger to do anything for biscuits?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

They don’t care that Chief Powhatan himself saved us from freezing and hunger when all our houses burned.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

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

Some hungers were delusional, but that didn’t make them any less real.

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

Enjoying heavy rotation on MTV on the wings of “Dancing with Myself” and “White Wedding,” his audience hungered for more.

From Salon Apr. 26, 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

He hungered for "positive taxpayer feedback," so he called a press conference.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

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

“Mr. Kennedy is the one person who has the qualities that can bring about the unity that most Americans are hungering for,” Mr. Kucinich said.

From New York Times Jun. 19, 2023

It has also served as a watershed moment for the business-news landscape, making a group of internet influencers go-to sources for people hungering for news of FTX and SBF, as Bankman-Fried is known.

From Washington Post Jan. 5, 2023

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

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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