anti-hunger

adjective

an·​ti-hun·​ger
ˌan-tē-ˈhəŋ-gər,
ˌan-tī- How to pronounce anti-hunger (audio)
: intended or serving to prevent or alleviate hunger
anti-hunger programs
an anti-hunger organization

Examples of anti-hunger in a Sentence

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Spotlighting the poor food choices of SNAP participants would be a distraction from these facts and would risk further stigmatizing a successful anti-hunger program. Benjamin Chrisinger, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025 One in five Kansas children are food insecure, said Haley Kottler, who focuses on anti-hunger advocacy at Kansas Appleseed. Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2025 But anti-hunger advocates such as Feeding America, a nonprofit network of 200 food banks, were lobbying up to defend nutrition programs even before the election. Taylor Giorno, The Hill, 2 Jan. 2025 Her concerns are echoed by anti-hunger advocates such as Rhonda Chafin, executive director of Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee, which serves about 43,000 people every month. Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2024 Items with purchase certificates on display in the machines ranged from the sandwiches for the food bank to a new mattress for Canopy to a beehive or a live goat to the anti-hunger Church World Service. Doug Thompson, arkansasonline.com, 6 Dec. 2024 Last week, the world’s most influential voices in agriculture, sustainability, and anti-hunger advocacy gathered in Iowa for the Borlaug Dialogue, the flagship event of the World Food Prize. Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024 Key Takeaways Levels of Lac-Phe, an anti-hunger molecule, increase after taking the diabetes drug metformin. Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 4 Apr. 2024 Perhaps most important, anti-hunger programs need to be sustained, even when the need to address hunger appears less urgent. Homi Kharas, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015

Word History

First Known Use

1847, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of anti-hunger was in 1847

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“Anti-hunger.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-hunger. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.

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