hunger

But a little hunger isn’t necessarily bad if it focuses the mind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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

Another group lacked the receptor in the hypothalamus, an important brain region involved in regulating hunger and body weight.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 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

Something clawed in her stomach, roaring with hunger for it.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

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

And while Schuyler’s novel says that Black America hungers to be white, Black Thought’s remix asserts the Black experience can be interrogated independent of whiteness.

From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022

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

Only those who hungered for true love, like Seong-hun, had made the cut.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024

And there the ginger smell was sharp, sharp enough to distort dreams and make the sleeper believe the things he hungered for were right at hand.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

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

“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

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

That’s what comes of hungering for something: You forget to check if it’s rotten before you gobble it down.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black