starved for
idiom
chiefly US
: badly in need of being given (something needed for one's emotional well-being)
Those children are starved for attention.
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Meanwhile the Pentagon is starved for high-tech talent.
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Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
The sequel isn’t totally starved for fresh ideas, conceptual or thematic; for one, the rules governing its hellish setting — a symbolic column of class warfare, like the Snowpiercer flipped on its side — have been tweaked.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2024
Right now, Africa is starved for energy: excluding South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa’s one billion people have the power generation capacity of just 81 gigawatts—far less than the 108-gigawatt capacity of the United Kingdom.
—Yemi Osinbajo, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2021
Both players were prominently featured on the team’s social media accounts all offseason, used in part to help galvanize a fanbase that’s been starved for a winner.
—Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
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Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
The sequel isn’t totally starved for fresh ideas, conceptual or thematic; for one, the rules governing its hellish setting — a symbolic column of class warfare, like the Snowpiercer flipped on its side — have been tweaked.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2024
Right now, Africa is starved for energy: excluding South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa’s one billion people have the power generation capacity of just 81 gigawatts—far less than the 108-gigawatt capacity of the United Kingdom.
—Yemi Osinbajo, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2021
Both players were prominently featured on the team’s social media accounts all offseason, used in part to help galvanize a fanbase that’s been starved for a winner.
—Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
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“Starved for.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/starved%20for. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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