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hungry

[huhng-gree] / ˈhʌŋ gri /


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"It isn't only me. It's the entire population. We're all hungry... We're suffocating under rising costs."

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 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

“They’re the hungry players,” said Tara VanDerveer, the Hall of Fame former women’s basketball coach at Stanford who now counts herself as a Valkyries fan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Clare opened his mouth like a hungry bird, grateful for the kindness of the passing stranger.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

The Audi brand is a radically different animal today—smaller, hungrier, and dependent on two huge export markets, China and the U.S., both increasingly problematic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

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

Perhaps just as interesting, the people following the higher-fiber eating plan did not report feeling hungrier.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 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

We got hungrier day after day, to the point that our stomachs were hurting and our visions blurred at times.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

New Jersey is home to some of the wealthiest zip codes in the country — and some of the hungriest.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 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

In war-torn Gaza, he said, no one has enough to eat and the tiny strip accounts for 80% of the 700,000 hungriest people in the world.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

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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