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hunger

[huhng-ger] / ˈhʌŋ gər /


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"If I receive that assurance soon, I will end my hunger strike today. If not, I will unfortunately have to continue," he said.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Michael Trazzi, who founded and leads the Stop the AI Race movement, attracted attention last year when he went on a hunger strike outside Google DeepMind’s London office.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

Last month, he joined the Cockroach sit-in and went on a hunger strike, a protest tactic in India associated with Mahatma Gandhi.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Indian activist and educationist Sonam Wangchuk, on hunger strike for the past 20 days in Delhi, has been forcibly removed from his protest site.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

My feet are burning; my throat is dry; my stomach growls with hunger.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

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

The series sticks with that impetus while expanding our view into the part of Ellie that hungers for family and true care.

From Salon Feb. 27, 2023

And while Schuyler’s novel says that Black America hungers to be white, Black Thought’s remix asserts the Black experience can be interrogated independent of whiteness.

From New York Times Feb. 24, 2022

Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

But while she hungered for education, academic strictures rarely suited her, and her methods, ahead of their time, struck many university gatekeepers as too unorthodox.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 17, 2023

How many families hungered for food they could not afford to buy?

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 14, 2022

That’s what comes of hungering for something: You forget to check if it’s rotten before you gobble it down.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black




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