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hankering

noun as in strong desire

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If you’re still hankering to go outdoors, try these trails that are far away from the burned areas.

If you find yourself hankering to hang a framed photo or light a candle inside your fridge, it may be time to get help.

Yet for more than a decade, Hovde, 60, has had a hankering to hold political office.

“I suddenly got a hankering for meat. You either give me a house or pay me with your bones!”

I find myself sometimes having a lovely time, out to dinner with friends, say, and I’ll notice an insistent hankering for the dinner to be over.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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