hungry
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Come hungry and don’t even think about trying to make the meal healthy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
After years of food designed to work everywhere for everyone, diners may simply be hungry again for evidence that somebody meant it.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Around that time, I’ll get hungry again, and everyone’s like, how can you be hungry?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Investors hungry for AI exposure have come to see Microsoft as “one of the highest-quality platforms in technology,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
That bit of magic made me hungry for more.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Not only do sugar spikes contribute to the long-term development of metabolic disease, it can also leave you hungrier by midmorning than if you had eaten nothing at all.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 21, 2026
Overall, the findings show that animals do not simply become hungrier when nutrients are missing.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026
The Gunners boss said Arsenal are "hungrier than ever" and that the defeats do not change the importance of the last-eight match against Sporting.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026
The staffing shortage meant her wait ended up being much longer—and hungrier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
Our dead as a result are thinner, grayer, harder to hear, and hungrier.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
“All of us, from the wealthiest and most powerful of men to the weakest and hungriest of children, share one precious possession: the name American.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
If we know we are no longer sending our best players out against the world, can we at least go back to sending our hungriest?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
I rejected meatloaf when I was at my hungriest, sealed my lips shut when my mother tried to shove it in my toddler mouth back in the 80s.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2023
“The only list you’ll find me on is the hungriest customer list,” Kelce responded.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2023
Their flesh was firm and sweet and would fill even the hungriest stomach.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
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