hunger
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The couple from East Sussex, who both deny espionage, went on hunger strike in May when prison authorities prevented them from calling their families.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Still, in this bottom-line business, are the financial rewards keeping pace with the hunger for celebrity docs?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
One of the protest's most visible faces is Devendra Nath Mahto, who is also on hunger strike.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Over the Memorial Day weekend, 300 detainees launched a hunger and labor strike at Delaney Hall.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
It meant cold and hunger—more hunger than usual.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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
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
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
Most of the time I was happy not to have to bother with food, but tonight I hungered for a mouthful of pasta, steaming hot, drowned in sauce, dusted with Parmesan.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing hunger
Nutrition - Introductory
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