hunch

“You have a formless hunch, and you move toward it. It’s a mystery, really, why we’re attracted to certain subjects.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

In another group, the tablet lay flat on a desk set at a lower height, which encouraged participants to lean forward and hunch over.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

Matejka’s hunch is that unlike 2025, Magnificent Seven stocks may not set the pace in a rebound and the leadership may be more broad-based.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026

Dr Nick Longrich, a paleontologist at the University of Bath, said his hunch was that they were mainly preying on ammonites.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

On a hunch, San Martín went out the back door and, sure enough, found telltale footprints in the snow.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Dott's lawyer, Euan Dow, said emotions in such cases were natural, and urged jurors to not to decide the verdicts on "hunches" or "suspicions".

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

If you bet money on whims and hunches, you’ll pull it right back out based on gut feelings, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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

“The Bear” star Jeremy Allen White hunches into leather jackets and flannels, dark curls coquettishly kissing his brow, in order to embody Springsteen on screen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025

For years Francis had been trying to tell him what was important, but the more dispassionately he considered his life, the more he knew he had been wise to follow up his own hunches.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 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

Hernández could only watch the ball soar, hunched over.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 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

A gap in the fog had given her a clear view: she’d seen the stream rushing past a clump of spruce, and a big dark boulder hunched beside them.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Sinner took lengthy off-court breaks at the end of each set, but continued to struggle, walking gingerly, wincing and hunching over his racquet between points.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

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

I browsed for hours, and by the time I was done my back was sore from hunching over crates and my arms ached from all the records I was toting around.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2023

She is unassuming, often hunching her shoulders and bowing her head modestly as she walks toward the starting blocks before a race.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

The dogs trotted around the house corner hunching their shoulders and grinning horribly with pleasure.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck