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hunger

[huhng-ger] / ˈhʌŋ gər /


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Over the Memorial Day weekend, 300 detainees launched a hunger and labor strike at Delaney Hall.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2026

Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned the day after Wangchuk ended his hunger strike.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

But cosplayers can also embody everything from fast food brands, internet browsers and memes to intangible ideas like gravity or hunger, while also experimenting with gender.

From Barron's Aug. 1, 2026

More than a 100 detainees were on a hunger strike over conditions at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

But there was no chance for Penelope to share this plot twist with Simon, for Lord Fredrick whimpered with hunger for the chickens, and the situation needed to be addressed at once.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

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

“Yet, our nation hungers for their radical song. Let us not sit back silently...”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 25, 2023

“In so many ways, it felt like the actualization of a lot of these more private hungers and more private desires for sound and experience and collectivity,” she said.

From New York Times Mar. 10, 2023

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

That added to a quasi “gold rush” among investors who understandably hungered for a piece of the action.

From MarketWatch Feb. 3, 2026

But beneath the bravado lies a wounded child — the boy who yearned for approval, who hungered for his father’s love but never got it.

From Salon May 6, 2024

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

He slept not, for there was no sleep; he hungered not, for as yet there was no hunger.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

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

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

From Washington Post May 27, 2022

Any hoops fan hungering for a return to normal this March might have looked at the bracket when it finally came out and wondered what ever changed.

From Seattle Times Mar. 13, 2022

He had awakened on this morning with a hungering need to bark out orders and have them carried out with speed and efficiency.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy




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