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hunger

[huhng-ger] / ˈhʌŋ gər /


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The broader implications extend beyond hunger and fullness.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 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

Prof James Betts, who researches how the body handles food and energy at the University of Bath, says a big factor is that our "hunger hormone" ghrelin is generally higher later in the day.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

The Soviet Union—which had been Cuba’s source of financial support—has collapsed and left the island a scene of desperation and hunger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

“Pain and aches, boat journeys, marches, hunger and fatigue seemed to belong to the limbo of forgotten things, and there remained only the perfect contentment that comes of work accomplished.”

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

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

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. Let us not sit back silently...”

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

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 for thee I hungered and forsook my bed.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

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

“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

“The country is very volatile and hungering for change,” he said.

From Washington Post ● May 27, 2022

But after whetting my appetite, “Trayf” left me hungering for more substantive spiritual nourishment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 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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