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hunger

[huhng-ger] / ˈhʌŋ gər /


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They see that you have the talent and hunger and they’re receptive to your ask for support.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

Earlier this year, Leo warned that many societies were seeking to push God out of public life, even as he saw “a growing hunger for God.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

It's not just feelings of hunger that increase later in the day.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

It was a painful way to learn what a final costs, and it left him with a hunger that never really went away.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

When the dragon had finally sated its hunger, it sat on Jeremy's desk, preening its scales with its beaky nose.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

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

Ng’s and Wong’s bodies have both known hungers of many kinds, inheriting their ancestors’ “insatiable” appetites — for food and water, but also for connection.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2023

The series sticks with that impetus while expanding our view into the part of Ellie that hungers for family and true care.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 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

But beneath the bravado lies a wounded child — the boy who yearned for approval, who hungered for his father’s love but never got it.

From Salon ● May 6, 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

The night was railing against the morning of which it was bereaved, and the cold was cursing the warmth for which it hungered.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2022

Any hoops fan hungering for a return to normal this March might have looked at the bracket when it finally came out and wondered what ever changed.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 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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