hunger
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The undefeated challenger arrives with a 12-0 record and a hunger to create her own story.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Poor people are more vulnerable to everything—disease, hunger, broken infrastructure, economic shocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
The hunger for capital has pushed bond yields higher, even in sovereign debt.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Afghanistan has endured repeated hunger crises in recent decades as it has struggled through civil war and other crises.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
He had no idea how long he had been reading when his concentration was interrupted by a pang of hunger shooting through his stomach.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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
Yet, our nation hungers for their radical song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
Because she was not an animal, and she would not blindly chase 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
Dany hungered and thirsted with the rest of them.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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
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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