hunch
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Hartnett suspects the oversold and the overbought may start to reverse respective directions if his hunch is correct that there’s a cyclical upswing in the U.S. economy looming.
From MarketWatch ● May 1, 2026
And after he backed up that hunch with millions of dollars, his new players proved him right.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
“My hunch is it was shocking,” Mora said of the immigration raids last summer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
And so the striker's hunch proved correct - he did have a role to play.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
I hunch over the edge of Mom’s pod.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
But most are not well versed in sifting through medical research, and separating high-quality evidence from anecdotes and hunches.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 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
At the same time, the feats of Mr. Goddio and company—accomplished through a combination of mathematics, historical hunches and old-fashioned deep-sea diving—will keep a viewer afloat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
"At that time publishers were much more prepared to back their hunches," he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025
Lawyers typically have little information about potential jurors, so their decisions to strike individual jurors tend to be based on nothing more than stereotypes, prejudices, and hunches.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Once again, Walker Kessler sat hunched forward, ears and eyes intently locked onto the person whose words would change his life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
The soundtrack is a series of bleeps and pings as fresh data is fed to dozens of men in T-shirts and hoodies hunched over joysticks and keyboards.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
“Those last scenes with me looking like a lonely old lady walking hunched over in the garden? Boy, I told him to get rid of those,” she said, referring to the documentary’s director, R.J.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2026
My posture is tight and hunched as ever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
The next one showed him frowning in concentration, hunched over the flower press, not even aware of the photo being taken.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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
"Then I saw a monkey hunching over my child."
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2022
Do not round your back by hunching or arching it.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
The walls turned to gray cement, and die ceiling got so low that pretty soon we were hunching over.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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