hunch

I have a hunch that if you weren’t on opposing sides when it comes to paying off your mortgage, you would find another hot-button issue to disagree about.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

It feels great to act on a hunch and profit, but that ETF you bought might not have gone up because of what’s on the label.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Why did you have a hunch that certain live sports were about to go mainstream, first bullfighting, then UFC?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

The practice of pulling over random vehicles, often based on little more than a hunch, has been a cornerstone of the city’s crime-fighting strategy for decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Most areas in the attic, I have to hunch my back.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

In this candid scene, a man hunches forward in an attempt at a nap.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

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

He hunches his shoulders, opens and closes his hands, takes a deep breath.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

“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

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

He receives a stream of calls in his windowless office, stepping in and out to speak to teams hunched over screens in a command post.

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

It was a cold night, and Torak sat hunched in his sleeping-sack, listening to the faint, faraway roar that Renn said was the Thunder Falls.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

“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

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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2022

He saw that Bo was hunching up his shoulders against the cold, so he turned up his brother's collar.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke