hunger
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South Korea’s trade data, seen as a bellwether of AI demand, show few signs that the hunger for chips is ebbing as a torrent of investment in AI infrastructure continues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
What begins as genuine hunger, the two argue, can become associated with the pleasure of ordering.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
“Every time you honor your hunger, you are repairing,” Tribole says.
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
He smelt its rage and its terrible hunger; he heard its tireless breath.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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
Wong hungers for familiarity with her Chinese name, the memory of which has become so faint she calls upon her mother to repeat it to her.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2023
Yet, our nation hungers for their radical song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
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
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
Only those who hungered for true love, like Seong-hun, had made the cut.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
These blowzy women with their little hats and their clippings hungered for attention.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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
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
And students are hungering to be back in the hustle and bustle of campus life, Brumbaugh added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 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
But, of course, it was my body, hungering, biding its time against the tyranny of my spirit.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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