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hunger

[huhng-ger] / ˈhʌŋ gər /


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The question is will Shields train her to rush the passer so he can practice his blocking techniques against someone with agility and a hunger to do anything for biscuits?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

Another group lacked the receptor in the hypothalamus, an important brain region involved in regulating hunger and body weight.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

Scientists still do not fully understand how dietary fat interacts with the neural systems that control hunger, food intake, and body weight.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

From one end of their 800-mile-long, crocodile-shaped Caribbean island to the other, Cubans are suffering through hot, sleepless nights and trudging through exhaustion and hunger by day.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

My hunger had honed itself into a tight, throbbing knot, but I felt too nauseated to eat the hard mandelbrot-like cookies he offered me with my drink.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

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

“Ghosts are human hungers, and humans don’t have to be right.”

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

Tom was of course not a nincompoop, but a serious, thoughtful person who hungered to add substance to sketch comedy.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 29, 2023

He wanted to see a movie; his senses hungered for it.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

“Does this mean I get to work more?” she asks, hungering for starring roles.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

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

Based on a 1992 movie, this musical features Billy Crystal returning to the role of Buddy Young Jr., a has-been comic who is hungering for a comeback and reconnecting with family.

From New York Times Jun. 12, 2022

Actually, they were the Simple-Lifers, hungering after a life, which to those who lived it had probably appeared not so Simple, and who had been, therefore, Simple-Lifers themselves.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov




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