hunch
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“We’re here on what I would call a hunch or, at best, a suspicion,” said Brian Perkins, an attorney representing multiple victims in the case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
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
And so the striker's hunch proved correct - he did have a role to play.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
In that very first moment, when Houghton swished off the cloth, all Harrison had was a hunch, an instinctive sense that something was amiss.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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 audience rehashed its hunches, they circled potential suspects, they stared at a static image of a horrific crime scene, awash in twinkling moonlight.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026
Saving for a goal that’s decades away, we might trade on this week’s hopes, fears, headlines and hunches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
"At that time publishers were much more prepared to back their hunches," he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025
TJ hunches over, then stands up straight as a nail with each uppercut.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
Williams sat hunched as he said "not guilty" to each of the charges.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Hernández could only watch the ball soar, hunched over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
"Everything seems normal to me, things seem fine," Luis Cardona, a Colombian who was visiting with his wife, told AFP, shoulders hunched against the wind and rain.
From Barron's ● May 12, 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
Her cheeks sagged past her jaw and she was hunched over on a gnarled stick that shook under her hand.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
My adult physical life has been a mixed bag of hyper-athletic hot yoga, long country runs and hunching over my computer for days on end.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 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
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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