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hunger

[huhng-ger] / ˈhʌŋ gər /


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The hunger is only partly satisfied by existing capital-gains taxes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Cosm’s domed, 87-foot-diameter wraparound screen surrounds audiences and represents today’s hunger for collective, so-called immersive experiences that place attendees in fantastical environments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

The broader implications extend beyond hunger and fullness.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 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

Tried to do anything but think about his gnawing hunger for love.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

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

Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

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

He cared little for material things but he hungered for respect and he was acutely aware that in the culture in which he lived, money was the prevailing gauge of success.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

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

From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2023

“Our audiences are hungering for an authentic experience, the work of art placed in front of them,” Mr. Steward said.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 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


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