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Recent Examples of sweet tooth
There’s a difference between feeding the hungry and subsidizing someone’s sweet tooth.
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Editorial, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026
Some thieves in Europe must have had a sweet tooth.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026
Putting the sweet tooth to the test For the study, researchers divided 180 people into three groups and exposed them to different levels of sweetness from sugar, naturally-sweet foods, and low-calorie sweeteners.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 24 Mar. 2026
Built on a foundation of passion — and a serious sweet tooth — by Carrie and Brian Cieslak, the business has developed more than 100 flavors over time, with about 20 to 25 available at a time, according to previous reporting by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
—Adrienne Davis, jsonline.com, 24 Mar. 2026
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Editorial, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026
Some thieves in Europe must have had a sweet tooth.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2026
Putting the sweet tooth to the test For the study, researchers divided 180 people into three groups and exposed them to different levels of sweetness from sugar, naturally-sweet foods, and low-calorie sweeteners.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 24 Mar. 2026
Built on a foundation of passion — and a serious sweet tooth — by Carrie and Brian Cieslak, the business has developed more than 100 flavors over time, with about 20 to 25 available at a time, according to previous reporting by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
—Adrienne Davis, jsonline.com, 24 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sweet tooth
Noun
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In other words, this high drama of winners and losers follows a very, very old human narrative tradition rooted in our craving for catharsis.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 May 2026
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The white-meat nuggets are delicious on their own and satisfy that fast-food craving—especially when they’re prepped in the air fryer and dipped in our favorite sauces.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
9 May 2026
Noun
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In 1981, Irish Republican Army militant Bobby Sands died at age 27 at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland on the 66th day of a hunger strike.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 May 2026
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The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, said there is no hunger strike at the Baldwin facility.—
Nick Lentz,
CBS News,
26 Apr. 2026
Noun
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But rescue organizations that seized hundreds of domestic and farm animals from the property this month painted a different picture of the operation — one where animals suffered from severe neglect, malnutrition, emaciation, untreated open wounds and contagious infections.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2026
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Learning about seal malnutrition has been sobering.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
Noun
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Cascadia Research Collective founder John Calambokidis told CBS affiliate KREM that many of the whales appeared to have died from starvation, possibly because of climate change reducing the Arctic and Alaskan food supplies that whales in the area rely on.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
6 May 2026
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More than a hundred thousand died of disease and starvation, as their waterways and other food sources were overtaken by miners.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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The house church promoting the fast, Grandview Fellowship, has been meeting at the home of Clay and Sarah Edwards.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
20 Apr. 2026
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Gathered in small groups on the sidewalk, congregants ate small bites to break the fast before going home to rest.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Last year, famine was declared in two major regions , Darfur and Kordofan.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 May 2026
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Tuberculosis, for instance, is estimated to have caused about a billion deaths across history, more than all famines and wars combined.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 May 2026
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