hungry
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The Dodgers needed a healthy Ohtani to deal with a young, hungry ballclub like the Brewers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
She added that many mothers say they are skipping out on their own healthcare so that their kids can go to the doctor, or skipping meals so their kids don’t go hungry.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
As we walk through the greenery, it is eerily quiet bar bird song and the mewing of hungry, stray cats.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
After years of food designed to work everywhere for everyone, diners may simply be hungry again for evidence that somebody meant it.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
He reverted to all fours and bounded across the room, dodging the flames, yipping as a hungry blaze singed his beautiful snow-sky tail.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Despite their roster of stars and their unprecedented payroll, they stood no chance against the younger, hungrier and more tenacious Brewers, who overwhelmed their wealthier opponent with a relentless energy the Dodgers couldn’t match.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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
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
The dogs were shedding their winter coats, whining and restless to be off the ship again, and growing hungrier every day.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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
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
Because even the hungriest rabbit can't eat the entire garden.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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