hunger
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The hunger for capital has pushed bond yields higher, even in sovereign debt.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Wile E. Coyote conveys his hunger in a glower.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
In the chapter titled “Cerium,” Levi describes how, wracked with hunger, he stole iron-cerium rods to make flints for cigarette lighters so that he could exchange them for bread.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
An activist in India's eastern Jharkhand state has ended a 16-day hunger strike after the government agreed to protesters' demands to cancel a controversial recruitment exam.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Out in the hog pen, Sloppy Ann was squealing with hunger.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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
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. Let us not sit back silently...”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
Some hungers were delusional, but that didn’t make them any less real.
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
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
L.A. hungered to emerge from the shadow of neighboring San Francisco, to position itself as a place of national, even global import.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
To know that he could betray himself, betray his country again even in sleep, to know that—after everything she’d done—some sick part of him still hungered after her...it was too much.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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
Cheered on by a studio audience hungering for fireworks and fisticuffs — “Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry!”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2023
But after whetting my appetite, “Trayf” left me hungering for more substantive spiritual nourishment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 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
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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