: refusal (as by a prisoner) to eat enough to sustain life
hunger strikernoun
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His mother, Laila Soueif, 69, was on a 10-month hunger strike to pressure British authorities to do more to secure her son’s freedom.—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 29 Dec. 2025 Nine political prisoners are currently on hunger strike.—Oscar Biscet, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025 Michaël Trazzi, an activist who went on a hunger strike outside Google DeepMind’s London headquarters in September, also believes that AI could lead to human extinction.—Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025 In mid-October, his Cuban cellmate, Roberto Mosquera del Peral, began a monthlong hunger strike.—Sarah Stillman, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hunger strike
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