: refusal (as by a prisoner) to eat enough to sustain life
hunger strikernoun
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Seeking to convey the stakes, two activists, Guido Reichstadter and Michael Trazzi, have gone on hunger strikes outside the San Francisco office of Anthropic and London office of Google’s DeepMind respectively.—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025 When hunger strikes, go for a döner.—Blane Bachelor, AFAR Media, 29 Aug. 2025 Eidivand is the brother of Mehrad Asadi Eidivand, a bodybuilder from Iran who went on hunger strikes after being arrested by immigration authorities outside his Phoenix home in May.—Elena Santa Cruz, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025 While on hunger strike, he was put up for election for a UK assembly seat, and against all odds, won.—Philip Metres
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