adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an insatiable desire (= a desire that cannot be satisfied )
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She had an insatiable desire for publicity.
insatiable curiosity (= used when someone is always curious )
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He had an insatiable curiosity about why people do the things they do.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
appetite
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Their observations concerning the insatiable appetite for immediate team success from the age of eight are so relevant.
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The underlying problem is the insatiable appetite of modern political campaigns for ever more cash.
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I've started reading your column in the Sunday Express but that won't satisfy my insatiable appetite for your peerless wit.
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The government is not some sinister monster gobbling up taxpayers' money simply to satisfy its own insatiable appetite .
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As one would expect of two old pros with an insatiable appetite for the game, we hardly stopped talking about football.
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She named him Albert, and gave him an insatiable appetite for ropes.
demand
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The fact is no government can meet the insatiable demand for ever more sophisticated medical technology by an ageing population.
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The remarkable Ceylonese railway network was built largely as a response to the insatiable demands of tea-planting from the 1880s.
desire
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The observer has an insatiable desire for abstract knowledge.
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Whatever the financial climate, there still seemed an insatiable desire to build more office space, rentable or not.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an insatiable appetite for attention
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His curiosity about the natural world is insatiable .
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Humankind seems to have an insatiable urge to conquer and explore.
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She had an insatiable thirst for attention.