hunker
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Another woman who was walking along the town's beach said she was preparing to "hunker down".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The indignity and grime of poverty, the constant close proximity, the competitive scramble for decreasing amounts of writing time made them hunker defensively.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Jump into an affordable public pool or hunker down at a public library, free museum, or one of the city’s public cooling centers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Determined to survive, Iran might initially hunker down or seek to draw out any conflict.
From Barron's ● Feb. 28, 2026
His mouth half-full of rice, Hassan said, “I think we'll be able to find a place to hunker down somewhere in this house.”
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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