hunch

I have a hunch that if you weren’t on opposing sides when it comes to paying off your mortgage, you would find another hot-button issue to disagree about.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Hartnett’s hunch appears to be playing out as several other commentators in the market have also decided the yields on offer in fixed-income markets are compelling.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Why did you have a hunch that certain live sports were about to go mainstream, first bullfighting, then UFC?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Vivienne's hunch was confirmed - she had hypermobile joints.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

“I’ve never known you to have a hunch before, Claude. You usually plan everything.”

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

The government’s explanations for the arrests, wrote Judge Jennifer Thurston in Fresno, “rely on unsupported assumptions, hunches and generalizations about the relationship between a person’s apparent status as a day laborer and their immigration status.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026

Much of the panic driving recent selloffs has been based on futuristic hunches or kneejerk assessments of the impact of new AI tools.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

New discoveries and old hunches borne out by computer analysis have indicated how often and how deeply he collaborated with writers such as Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd and John Fletcher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

When the workweek began, we’d convene with analysts from other agencies to murder-board our hunches on how and where the next attack might occur.

From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2025

There are ancient ideas reverberating through this structure, very old hunches.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Instead, he was hunched over in a single foldout plastic chair in an otherwise empty room, looking spent.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026

Carrie Bart walked past it all hunched over a twin stroller with her head buried in her phone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

They sat hunched inside the glass courtroom cage for most of the hearings, backs to the line of TV cameras.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

Even though he had no notable operations outside the U.S., he hunched toward a microphone and said in a halting voice, “Hilcorp is fully committed and ready to go to rebuilding the infrastructure in Venezuela.”

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

Then he disappeared around the nearby building, his shoulder hunched, his hands shoved into his pockets.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

To challenge that, he made Clark Kent a nerd, hunching his shoulders, making him sputter with nervousness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

And I’m tired of hunching down in front of him and walking backward, offering up bits of kibble to tempt him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

“Untitled” opens with Joseph Sissons moving center stage, legs unfurling to the sky, torso hunching forward, body propelling into the air before coming to a dead stop.

From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2023

"Then I saw a monkey hunching over my child."

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2022

He was hunching up his shoulders and lowering his chin and getting ready to pull his head inside his shell.

From "Because of Winn-Dixie" by Kate DiCamillo