hungry
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It’s a one-track, single-minded way of thinking, eerily reminiscent of, oh, I don’t know, a hungry coyote blindly pursuing a roadrunner.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
If teammates get hungry, he might be lobbied for a trip to McDonald’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
And Donovan - the teenager in Alistair Johnston's terrain - was hungry and effective.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
They just make sure they’re never so hungry that everything on the shelf looks good.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Berlin wasn’t even hungry, was sick of Indian tacos—whatever you decided to call them—anyhow.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
Overall, the findings show that animals do not simply become hungrier when nutrients are missing.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026
Djokovic grew up in war-torn Serbia and has spoken about how his turbulent childhood made him hungrier for success.
From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 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
“I been hungrier than this,” the hobo told Billy.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
By all rights, Chief Executive Robert Davis should be the hungriest shopper in the aisle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
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
If we know we are no longer sending our best players out against the world, can we at least go back to sending our hungriest?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
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
To avoid the woman she had to tiptoe down the hall like a mouse trying to escape the hungriest of cats.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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