hunger

An activist in India's eastern Jharkhand state has ended a 16-day hunger strike after the government agreed to protesters' demands to cancel a controversial recruitment exam.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Rake-thin men, their shorts made many sizes too big by hunger, pick through mountains of trash for food, plastic or anything they might be able to use or sell.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

The question is will Shields train her to rush the passer so he can practice his blocking techniques against someone with agility and a hunger to do anything for biscuits?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

We’ll see how many they speak for, but it matters in politics where the energy and fervor are, where the hunger is.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The economist Jeffrey Sachs, an expert on world hunger, visited Zanmi Lasante after reading the Lancet article.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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. Let us not sit back silently...”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 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

Enjoying heavy rotation on MTV on the wings of “Dancing with Myself” and “White Wedding,” his audience hungered for more.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2024

Their movement had hungered for this moment for years, but now, after Oct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

Even in the dark, he hungered to see, and only after the fiercest fight to keep his eyes open did he fall asleep.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

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

Cheered on by a studio audience hungering for fireworks and fisticuffs — “Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry!”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 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

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

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