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hunger

[huhng-ger] / ˈhʌŋ gər /


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He vowed to eradicate hunger and create a self-confident, caring, outward-looking nation.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

In his third term he has overseen a drop in inflation and unemployment, and lifted millions out of hunger, but voters complain about a high cost of living and are fed up with crime.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

That was particularly unexpected because retatrutide is designed to suppress hunger, and its Phase 2 clinical trials primarily identified digestive problems as the most frequent side effects.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

He believes there is still a deep hunger for Cole’s history, its French dip and its setting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Maybe this was hunger brewing inside her and not a realization that all she wanted to do was quit the language camp and go on home.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Huge questions for a party that used to dominate Scottish politics and hungers for a way back to power at Holyrood.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

They are all citizens of winter, prey to the daily hungers of real life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Wong hungers for familiarity with her Chinese name, the memory of which has become so faint she calls upon her mother to repeat it to her.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2023

Yet, our nation hungers for their radical song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

They were not supposed to try and sate their hungers with demons and the dead.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Malcom McLean, a New Jersey commercial shipper who championed the new idea of prepacking cargo into big metal boxes, hungered for a Pentagon contract.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

That added to a quasi “gold rush” among investors who understandably hungered for a piece of the action.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 3, 2026

Enjoying heavy rotation on MTV on the wings of “Dancing with Myself” and “White Wedding,” his audience hungered for more.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2024

But while she hungered for education, academic strictures rarely suited her, and her methods, ahead of their time, struck many university gatekeepers as too unorthodox.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2023

I hungered to share the dominant assumptions of my time and act upon them.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

Her own audience, primed to look for conspiracy theories in the wake of a high-profile murder, had been hungering for Owens to challenge the widely accepted version of events.

From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2026

And students are hungering to be back in the hustle and bustle of campus life, Brumbaugh added.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2022

Based on a 1992 movie, this musical features Billy Crystal returning to the role of Buddy Young Jr., a has-been comic who is hungering for a comeback and reconnecting with family.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2022

“The country is very volatile and hungering for change,” he said.

From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022

He had awakened on this morning with a hungering need to bark out orders and have them carried out with speed and efficiency.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy


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