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hunger

[huhng-ger] / ˈhʌŋ gər /


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It helps regulate essential functions such as body temperature, hunger, metabolism, sleep, and hormone production.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

That changed after 28 June, when educationist and scientist Sonam Wangchuk began a hunger strike in CJP's support and Neha and a few others from Aisa also joined him.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Detainees and immigrant rights groups have increasingly challenged conditions at Adelanto in court and through protests such as hunger strikes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

An insatiable curiosity about the world and the principles by which it operates, a hunger to know the mysteries of nature and grasp the secrets of the cosmos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

He did not know how to fix it, but he did know how to make his hunger go away.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

Ng’s and Wong’s bodies have both known hungers of many kinds, inheriting their ancestors’ “insatiable” appetites — for food and water, but also for connection.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2023

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

And suddenly he was all appeal, full of kid hungers, his knees shaking.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

The night was railing against the morning of which it was bereaved, and the cold was cursing the warmth for which it hungered.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

“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

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

But, of course, it was my body, hungering, biding its time against the tyranny of my spirit.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez




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