: refusal (as by a prisoner) to eat enough to sustain life
hunger strikernoun
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The hunger strike has spread to Wards 1 and 4 in Ghezel Hesar Prison, as well as to the notorious Evin Prison.—Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025 Together with a few colleagues-including her TV boss (Arvydas Dapšys) and a compassionate local dweller (Paulius Pinigis), Daiva starts a hunger strike in a small trailer facing the TV station.—Annika Pham, Variety, 11 Oct. 2025 Burgos mentioned the hundreds of millions of dollars in debt relief that Mamdani helped taxi-medallion owners win from City Hall in 2021, in part by going on a fifteen-day hunger strike, and a pilot program that made one bus route in every borough free.—Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025 Kieran Doherty, an Irish Republican Army prisoner, reportedly lasted 73 days on a hunger strike in 1981 before dying.—Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 25 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hunger strike
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