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

As a result, "my hunch is that we will see more successful employee ownership conversions in the next few years."

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 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

I believe, on hunch, that an inventory of our major disease problems based on this sort of classification would show a limited number of important questions for which the predictable answers carry certainty.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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

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

We have our hunches, but they could be upended on the night of the Oscars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2025

Bob English hunches over his drawing and says nothing.

From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead

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

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 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

Hernández could only watch the ball soar, hunched over.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 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

While she read, I hunched over my plate like a gargoyle, trying to interpret her head tilt.

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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2022

I recently discovered a recurring shoulder injury is partly due to hunching from sitting.

From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2022

A kind of hunching of the shoulders, pulling in of the neck, as though she wanted to cover her ears.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison