hunch
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Cain has a hunch the clientele will be as special as the place itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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
Recently, England have occasionally favoured hunch selections, with some players thrust into Test cricket without a great deal of first-class experience.
From BBC ● May 13, 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
Especially when there really was not much at stake—just a hunch of hers that the boys may have wandered down there.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
“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
At the same time, the feats of Mr. Goddio and company—accomplished through a combination of mathematics, historical hunches and old-fashioned deep-sea diving—will keep a viewer afloat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
Charlie hunches over on his stool, intently watching Gimpy pick up the knife and cut off a slab of dough.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
“You can get a video that’s just 10 seconds of Charlie kind of hunched over, and you know how people are” online, Paran said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Instead, he was hunched over in a single foldout plastic chair in an otherwise empty room, looking spent.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
"I would have periods where I was at work hunched over trying to serve customers, throwing up in the bin, running off to the toilet every three minutes."
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 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
I’m hunched over as I try to recover.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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
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
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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