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hunger

[huhng-ger] / ˈhʌŋ gər /


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Compared with sugar, sucralose increased reported hunger and blood flow in the hypothalamus, a brain region involved in appetite regulation.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

In the following years, she fought for controlled heroin programmes and against the death penalty and world hunger.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

Yet among a growing number of religiously liberal Jews, there seems to be a hunger for greater spirituality and an openness to developing a stronger sense of faith.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

According to the UN, more than 19.5 million people are also experiencing "crisis levels" of food insecurity and more than five million are facing "emergency levels of hunger".

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

By the end of each day, he had a bleach headache plus a hunger headache.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

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

The authors have also known hungers of many kinds, inheriting their ancestors’ “insatiable” appetites — for food and water, but also for connection.

From New York Times May 17, 2023

Yet, our nation hungers for their radical song.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 25, 2023

And suddenly he was all appeal, full of kid hungers, his knees shaking.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Dishes like chile verde, taco salads and chalupas became relics as customers hungered for offerings that were more “authentic.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2022

Within a month, we were receiving The Economist and reading the news we hungered for.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

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

“Our audiences are hungering for an authentic experience, the work of art placed in front of them,” Mr. Steward said.

From New York Times Oct. 20, 2022

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

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 26, 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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