hunger
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The rising use of armed drones came as 20 million people faced acute hunger, with a rising risk of famine in parts of the western region of Darfur and Greater Kordofan, he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Johnson, for instance, says the firm’s research with the the Immersive Experience Institute has shown a hunger in younger generations to embrace spaces such as the Rainforest Cafe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
In the midst of this hunger crisis, around one third of nutrition sites across the country have closed or have suspended services, "largely due to funding cuts".
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
David Beasley had called on billionaires to “step up now, on a one-time basis” to tackle global hunger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
‘Soon they drifted into evil, warped by their hunger for power.’
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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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
No one hungers for the bad old days—the infamous “Ford to City: Drop Dead” headline ran just months before PS1 opened—but it’s hard not to be nostalgic for the art world of the past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
Yet, our nation hungers for their radical song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
“In so many ways, it felt like the actualization of a lot of these more private hungers and more private desires for sound and experience and collectivity,” she said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
And suddenly he was all appeal, full of kid hungers, his knees shaking.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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
Election administrators in many states have long hungered for better access to federal information on citizenship status.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2026
That added to a quasi “gold rush” among investors who understandably hungered for a piece of the action.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 3, 2026
L.A. hungered to emerge from the shadow of neighboring San Francisco, to position itself as a place of national, even global import.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
These blowzy women with their little hats and their clippings hungered for attention.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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“Does this mean I get to work more?” she asks, hungering for starring roles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
On top of that, investors hungering for a new CEO had hoped Cornell’s replacement would arrive from outside Target; instead, the board picked a 20-year company veteran.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2025
It has also served as a watershed moment for the business-news landscape, making a group of internet influencers go-to sources for people hungering for news of FTX and SBF, as Bankman-Fried is known.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023
Be that as it may, the question remains: Is Broadway hungering for two jukebox musicals based on “Romeo and Juliet”?
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
Actually, they were the Simple-Lifers, hungering after a life, which to those who lived it had probably appeared not so Simple, and who had been, therefore, Simple-Lifers themselves.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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