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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

The government says the new law is intended to expand economic opportunities for citizens, amid concerns that poverty and hunger could fuel further political unrest.

From BBC ● 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

Their hunger made everyone start obsessing about food.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

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

As a quiet misfit in a foreign place, Daphne hungers for human connection even as she physically deteriorates.

From New York Times ● May 15, 2023

Yet, our nation hungers for their radical song.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

It wasn’t her fault that she was good at taking care of herself and 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

L.A. hungered to emerge from the shadow of neighboring San Francisco, to position itself as a place of national, even global import.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2023

Once I had devoured the vast Herball, I hungered for more than the knowledge of common things that grew beneath me.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

“Does this mean I get to work more?” she asks, hungering for starring roles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

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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