hunch
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Hartnett’s hunch appears to be playing out as several other commentators in the market have also decided the yields on offer in fixed-income markets are compelling.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
As the podcast gained momentum, and Levine chatted with experts and listeners, he developed a hunch: Perhaps this young woman was the daughter of someone profiting from Europe’s vast economic power over its colonies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Vivienne's hunch was confirmed - she had hypermobile joints.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Cain has a hunch the clientele will be as special as the place itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Next to him, I press my knees together, hunch my shoulders.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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
Bob English hunches over his drawing and says nothing.
From "Liar & Spy" by Rebecca Stead
“It was the dead of winter, and there was this 18-year-old, I would say, standing in the doorway, hunched over against the cold.”
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 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
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
It was a small place, crisscrossed with dirt roads that strung together a hundred-odd weathered brick houses hunched up on sandy soil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
A cloaked figure is hunched over a worktable filled with bubbling cauldrons, vials of neon-colored liquid, and candles dripping wax.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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
Many think the Brazilian men’s national team popularized the shift from squatting to hunching over for the front-row starters.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2022
"Then I saw a monkey hunching over my child."
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2022
He sat in wait, hunching on his pile of dirt.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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