appetite
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However Finucane added that this can be "undone very quickly whenever there is a momentum and an appetite to reopen and pull and push and poke at some very, very difficult and deep wounds".
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Still, his ambitions may be bigger than the country’s appetite for Miss USA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Unchecked real estate growth in Phoenix, and the appetite of California farmers for alfalfa -- a lucrative, highly water-intensive crop that feeds livestock -- are both sucking up resources.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Theater, in other words, that was creating a sense of belonging and not simply stoking an appetite for consuming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
It was the first appetite she’d had in days.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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Meal prep often asks us to make an absurdly confident prediction about our future appetites.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
And the outlook for future profits is strong, if fans’ appetites are any gauge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
"It was a conflicted time because I thought I'm not like those women so where do I go to find something that fits with what I feel about life and the appetites I have."
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
I wondered: Would our family budget, stretched by the appetites and extracurriculars of growing teenagers, allow us to go all-in on electric cars?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
They are both men with large appetites, and the only complaint I heard about them was from Warrant Officer Swart, who said, “Those fellows will eat us out of house and home!”
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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