as in desire
a strong wish for something
a pregnant woman with a craving for pickles
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as in jonesing
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as in wanting
to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy
craves ice cream at all hours of the day
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Recent Examples of craving
Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2025
To top it off, Venus in Aries is sizzling through your sultry eighth house of intimacy — your craving passion, intensity and soul-to-soul connections.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Wendy Wisner, Health, 22 Dec. 2024
This is for all the introverts out there who might be craving cozy, comfy vibes but still want to go out.
—Linh Ta, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
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Noun
This dopamine boost can lead to a cycling effect, where eating highly palatable foods leads to more cravings for those same non-nutritious foods.
—Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2025
To top it off, Venus in Aries is sizzling through your sultry eighth house of intimacy — your craving passion, intensity and soul-to-soul connections.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Verb
Many people report craving desserts and high-carb foods before and during their periods.
—Wendy Wisner, Health, 22 Dec. 2024
This is for all the introverts out there who might be craving cozy, comfy vibes but still want to go out.
—Linh Ta, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for craving
Noun
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But if his desire to return to the PGA Tour is as strong as Couples intimated, golf fans may well see him every week once again.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
4 Mar. 2025
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Braun stated a desire to show that directors are much more than managers of a campus clinic, do work that uniquely affects all students, and represent a specialty that’s vital to higher education.—
Eric Wood,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The earworm record provokes a sense of longing, one that is uplifting, cathartic and beautiful.—
Lisa Kocay,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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If the famous pistol scene feels a bit anticlimactic, the end of the play distills a shattering feeling of longing for something long lost.—
Karen D'Souza,
The Mercury News,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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And then on top of that, most people are addicted to social media, so you're constantly getting inundated with the worst f***ing things in the world all day long.—
Russel Honoré,
Newsweek,
5 Mar. 2025
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And in many instances, young users have gotten addicted to and become emotionally reliant on the technology, resulting in a string of lawsuits.—
Rashi Shrivastava,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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This sort of implicit address to the work’s spectators, and to their unquenchable thirst for more, also crops up in some of the photographer’s graver pictures.—
Naomi Fry,
The New Yorker,
22 Feb. 2025
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After 14 days isolated below, Collins died of thirst, hunger and hypothermia.—
Dave Quinn,
People.com,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But when Fernando has his own ideas, she’s sufficiently hooked to go with the flow.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
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Most of our current multipart extravaganzas give us the standard three acts before dropping in a cliffhanger ending to keep us hooked.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Many have shared their successes, cutting from clips of them consuming grapes, to shots of them enjoying a great year.—
George Monastiriakos,
Newsweek,
31 Dec. 2024
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Smart has largely stayed out of the spotlight since then, though paparazzi did once catch him enjoying a meal at the same restaurant as Lopez and then-boyfriend Alex Rodriguez in 2018.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
30 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Use silence in meetings—Resist the urge to fill pauses immediately.—
Cheryl Robinson,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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The urge to assist recently laid off federal workers comes after continuous cuts to the federal workforce.—
Shaela Foster,
Baltimore Sun,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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New trade relationships that are less dependent on the U.S. market may emerge, too.—
Mariana Mazzucato,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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The smoothness of that process is, naturally, somewhat dependent on the quality of video, which can vary by arena and league.—
Max Bultman,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Craving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/craving. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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