hunger
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The hunger is only partly satisfied by existing capital-gains taxes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
Even accounting for human vanity and human hunger it is astonishing, because every big company in Silicon Valley has been targeted by Chinese intelligence agencies—and Silicon Valley knows it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
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 broader implications extend beyond hunger and fullness.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
Somehow, the water I had drunk at the stream had managed to satisfy my hunger as well as my thirst.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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
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
They were not supposed to try and sate their hungers with demons and the dead.
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
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
Though they were merely stories, I accepted them as true because I wanted to believe them, because I hungered for a different life, for something new.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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
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
But before she drops the curtain on “Better Things,” is she perhaps hungering for that Emmy win?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2022
They were her secret rebellion, her heart hungering, her little underground of one.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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