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hungry

[huhng-gree] / ˈhʌŋ gri /


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All Wall Street needs to sell SpaceX stock to a hungry public is a semi-plausible narrative.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

The meal wasn’t as good as the pizza I had for just a handful of euros, and I went back to the pizzeria, hungry for more.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026

Hasina Bibi clutched her hungry four-year-old daughter as she waited at an India-Bangladesh border post, trying to leave as fears grow of an Indian crackdown on undocumented migrants.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Footage of the five men shot on Wednesday showed them miserable and caked in mud, telling rescuers they were suffering chest pains and starving hungry.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

There are two thousand internees at Los Baños—many of them “enemy civilians,” like those at Santo Tomas, where Gertie is—and they are hungry.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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