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hunger

[huhng-ger] / ˈhʌŋ gər /


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But when it happens regularly, as in Sylvia’s case, it can contribute to a total breakdown in hunger and fullness cues.

From Slate Sep. 23, 2026

It helps control automatic processes essential for survival, including breathing, sleeping, heartbeat regulation and hunger.

From Science Daily Sep. 21, 2026

They need to go back to basics, make sure they've got the fight, make sure they've got the hunger because they've got the talent - I know they've got the talent.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

In our Sept. 1 op-ed, we argued that the purpose of development banks is development: less poverty, hunger and death among the world’s poor.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Seeing her initials makes my stomach feel something worse than hunger.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

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

“Yet, our nation hungers for their radical song. Let us not sit back silently...”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 25, 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

Because she was not an animal, and she would not blindly chase her hungers....

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

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

Actors from all ranks are clearly hungering for the kind of substance and freedom that the stage can uniquely provide.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 9, 2025

“Mr. Kennedy is the one person who has the qualities that can bring about the unity that most Americans are hungering for,” Mr. Kucinich said.

From New York Times Jun. 19, 2023

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

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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