as in starving
feeling a desire or need for food after that long soccer practice, the children were really starved
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hungry
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And a large part of that spending is going directly into RAM- and storage-hungry GPUs and data centers, in turn leading to the very component supply crunch that is forcing Meta to raise prices on Quest headsets.—
Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2026
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The roadside eatery held the promise of tacos, burritos or whatever else our hungry hiker appetites desired.— Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2026
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“Starved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/starved. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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