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as in theory
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as in idea
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Recent Examples of hunch
Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
Thus, by accident, the cumbia rebajada was born alongside its slow dances, like the gavilán, or hawk, in which people dance hunched down low with their arms spread wide.
—Karla Gachet, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
My hunch is that many American parents have not yet started paying grandparents simply because the idea never occurred to them.
—Marina Lopes, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2025
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Verb
On many nights, Tamara would find her grandmother hunched over the kitchen table, poring over trial transcripts in which Erik and Lyle delivered hours of tearful and stomach-churning accounts of beatings, verbal lashings and rape.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
Thus, by accident, the cumbia rebajada was born alongside its slow dances, like the gavilán, or hawk, in which people dance hunched down low with their arms spread wide.
—Karla Gachet, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
Although Robson took more than a decade to put his theory to the test, his experiments in the 1980s proved his hunch was correct.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
My hunch is that many American parents have not yet started paying grandparents simply because the idea never occurred to them.
—Marina Lopes, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hunch
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The exhibition features his maps and sullied backpack, toothbrush, bar of soap, and survival goods, along with photos of him sleeping on park benches, crouching on the banks of the Hudson in front of ice floes, and haunting the city.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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After a brief struggle for traction, the robot regained control by crouching slightly, mimicking a human posture to exert force.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Oct. 2025
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The special explores theories about why the thieves targeted specific displays, who orchestrated this brazen operation and which fatal flaws in their plan ultimately led to their capture.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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The showgirl theory also holds in that fashion diapers seem to have taken off almost only among celebrities.—
Julie Beck,
The Atlantic,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The Eagles’ hump After weeks of struggles to reignite their passing attack, the Philadelphia Eagles and quarterback Jalen Hurts delivered a prolific outing last week.—
Mike Jones,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2025
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And a four-corner hydraulic-lift system takes the worry out of speed humps or heavily rutted roads.—
Tim Pitt,
Robb Report,
15 Oct. 2025
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Like most fiction, it’s made up of experiences, imagination, ideas, memories, emotions, speculation, knowledge and research.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Original sketches, color swatches and archival images tracing the history of yoga wear — which went from loose to form-fitting — along with rolls of Align fabric offered a visual display of how Align evolved from an idea into a global franchise over a decade.—
Denni Hu,
Footwear News,
9 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Longtime residents can’t forget his iconic image of flamingos huddling in the bathroom for safety against monstrous Hurricane Andrew in August 1992.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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Senate Republicans huddled on Friday afternoon after Schumer’s floor speech but seemed to see no immediate path forward.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Whether that response is genuine is now anybody’s guess.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Nov. 2025
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Hundreds of users were making guesses about where Sahara learned the sign for more in the comments.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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He is praised by some for policies that fueled rapid economic growth and relative political stability.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
11 Nov. 2025
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Buffett and Munger have long said that given its size, Berkshire can no longer achieve the explosive growth of its earlier years.—
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CNBC,
11 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Even more poignant, however, is the Rosemary's Baby angle, where the innocence of childhood is drowned in blood and the notion that a young person reared in a loving environment should develop into a compassionate adult is perverted into unthinkable horror.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
8 Nov. 2025
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This mismatch between perception and reality has real consequences, fueling the notion that higher education as a whole is elitist and out of touch, hiding the work of the colleges that educate millions of working- and middle-class families.—
Yolanda Watson Spiva,
Fortune,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Hunch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunch. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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