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hungry

[huhng-gree] / ˈhʌŋ gri /


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The 85-year-old US entrepreneur and personality has deleted a photo of herself wearing torn clothes and dirt on her face, holding a sign saying: "I am hungry help me!!"

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

"We were that wet and hungry, we just wanted to get tidied up and get our equipment back and to get to our own homes and families."

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

But she left after just a year, because, she said: “I thought I could do more by organizing farmworkers than by trying to teach their hungry children.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The runaway success of the artificial-intelligence trade has left investors hungry for the next big market theme.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

“You must be hungry, seeing as you were trying to eat those apples. Have some sludge.”

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

The world is hungrier than ever for copper, a key ingredient in green energy and the data centers that power artificial intelligence.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

This means we all respond differently to exercise in terms of how many calories we burn or whether a workout makes us feel hungrier later in the day.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

Not only do sugar spikes contribute to the long-term development of metabolic disease, it can also leave you hungrier by midmorning than if you had eaten nothing at all.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 21, 2026

They prioritized ”big people that move fast,” explained Miller, saving scholarship offers for players who were hungrier to improve than to become famous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

Food was hard to find in those mountains, and the three gods were hungry, and getting hungrier.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

By all rights, Chief Executive Robert Davis should be the hungriest shopper in the aisle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

I’m usually the hungriest really late at night, so I might order something against my better judgment like the hippy vegan ramen from Tatstu.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025

Astronomers claimed on Monday that they had discovered what might be the hungriest, most luminous object in the visible universe — a supermassive black hole that was swallowing a star a day.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

I rejected meatloaf when I was at my hungriest, sealed my lips shut when my mother tried to shove it in my toddler mouth back in the 80s.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2023

Immigrant girls, the girls who worked in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, were the hungriest of all.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny


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