hunger
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"If I receive that assurance soon, I will end my hunger strike today. If not, I will unfortunately have to continue," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
But once you’re out there and you’re playing your game or doing your sport, you’re not thinking about food, your hunger goes away for some reason.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
India's activist Sonam Wangchuk has ended a hunger strike after 26 days of fasting in support of youth-led protesters demanding education reforms.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Michael Trazzi, who founded and leads the Stop the AI Race movement, attracted attention last year when he went on a hunger strike outside Google DeepMind’s London office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
Instead, she took another bite of salted bagel to dull the hunger.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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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
They are all citizens of winter, prey to the daily hungers of real life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Yet, our nation hungers for their radical song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 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
To starve in order to learn about my environment was irrational, but so were my hungers.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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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
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
Only those who hungered for true love, like Seong-hun, had made the cut.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
And there the ginger smell was sharp, sharp enough to distort dreams and make the sleeper believe the things he hungered for were right at hand.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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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
“Our audiences are hungering for an authentic experience, the work of art placed in front of them,” Mr. Steward said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
But after whetting my appetite, “Trayf” left me hungering for more substantive spiritual nourishment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2022
That’s what comes of hungering for something: You forget to check if it’s rotten before you gobble it down.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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