hungry
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By shopping around, savers may find better rates from banks that are hungry for deposits in a Fed hike.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Once, she was hours late and the pigs were hungry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
People wait like hungry dogs at their food dish for influencer Caitlin Covington’s annual fall photo dump.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
These quiet temples attract grown-ups hungry for books that preserve our childhood worlds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Now she was so hungry she would even eat cooked carrots without gagging.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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
He and two of his closest allies, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and Transport Minister János Lázár, struggled to keep pace with their younger and hungrier opponent as they toured the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
In addressing Disney head Iger, Oliver urged him to understand that “giving the bully your lunch money doesn’t make him go away. It just makes him come back hungrier each time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025
“And if it was willing to risk its life to take the Uncle, it might mean that the Nightbeast is getting hungrier for grown witches.”
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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
The honeybees that Tsuruda studied decreased foraging during the eclipse, as they usually would at night, except for those from the hungriest hives.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
“Four out of 5 of the hungriest people anywhere in the world are in Gaza,” U.N.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 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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