as in greedy
having a huge appetite
the deli is frequented by young, single professionals, esurient after those long hours spent staring at the monitor of a computer
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Adjective
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People often stereotype crypto investors as reckless, young, or greedy.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
18 June 2025 -
To be patient but not to be greedy, Lilian thought now, studying Maureen’s pale eyelids.—
Yiyun Li,
New Yorker,
15 June 2025
Adjective
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This is epic fantasy set in a big world with a mysterious past (as well as a ravenous fungal ghost plague!).—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
13 June 2025
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But there’s also a ravenous demand for easy escapism.—
Katie Marie Davies,
Christian Science Monitor,
11 June 2025
Adjective
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And there's history of the market going from existential panic to exhilarating audacity in a blink, such as when the 1998 near-bear market on hedge-fund blowups reversed to give way to the gluttonous risk binge of 1999.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
9 June 2025
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And most importantly of all, gluttonous ticket prices have priced out the working classes.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
Adjective
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Hosono’s mastery of sound comes from his voracious musical appetite, a consummate collector and listener of records.—
Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
18 June 2025
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Michelle Young, a professor of architecture at Columbia University, also follows the war’s impact on Jewish art dealer Paul Rosenberg and his family, another target of voracious Hermann Göring and his ilk.—
Pat Tompkins,
AFAR Media,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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In an entertainment world no longer dominated by linear TV, every league is hungry to become the center of conversations du jour.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
17 June 2025
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Breyer had 1,000 Zoom viewers last week, the maximum the software can hold, showing that the public is hungry to see and hear what is happening inside of the public courts.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
17 June 2025
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“Esurient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/esurient. Accessed 29 Jun. 2025.
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