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on a hunch



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McLean, a 32-year-old data analyst in Chicago, was monitoring his wife’s scheduled United flight to New York on a hunch it would be waylaid by the shutdown and a coming snowstorm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025

The idea is to quickly sell them on a hunch then they will be able to buy the same number of them later for much cheaper before having to return them to the lender.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2024

The search was illegal, Saffari argued, probably based on a hunch that DeLeon might be armed because of his past criminal record and the area where he was stopped.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023

And as many foragers and scientists say, don’t munch on a hunch.

From National Geographic • Aug. 31, 2023

It could have been a neighbor, watching our car pull out from the driveway in the morning, acting on a hunch, tipping them off for a gold star on someone’s list.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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