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Recent Examples of hunched
But what if there was a way to quickly improve your abilities without spending hours hunched over the board?
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 Feb. 2026
In the photo the beleaguered president is pinned against the elevator’s back wall, shoulders hunched, arms crossed, eyes staring downward.
—Steven Levingston, Vanity Fair, 23 Feb. 2026
Take note of your posture—if you’re hunched over a computer or in another stress-inducing pose, soften the belly and drop the shoulders to get ready to engage your diaphragm like an opera singer might.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 23 Feb. 2026
After taking his skis off, Klæbo sat hunched over, staring into the snow, before standing up and congratulating his teammates and the rest of the finishers.
—Nathaniel Herz, NPR, 21 Feb. 2026
Another set of photos shows a man who appears to be him hunched on his hands and knees over a woman who is lying prone on the floor.
—Graham Kates, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
The images from the doorbell camera show the intruder approaching the alcoved entryway of Guthrie’s house with his head down, walking hunched over, as if trying to avoid his face being seen.
—Paige Williams, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
Isabella threw the winning stone and hunched close to the ice, watching her brother sweep until their red stone knocked out the Americans’ yellow rock for a 6-5 victory.
—Julia Frankel, Twin Cities, 10 Feb. 2026
Time spent hunched over a screen, trading real, in-person interactions for virtual ones, has negatively impacted many of my clients.
—Brianna Hardcastle, Sun Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2026
Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 Feb. 2026
In the photo the beleaguered president is pinned against the elevator’s back wall, shoulders hunched, arms crossed, eyes staring downward.
—Steven Levingston, Vanity Fair, 23 Feb. 2026
Take note of your posture—if you’re hunched over a computer or in another stress-inducing pose, soften the belly and drop the shoulders to get ready to engage your diaphragm like an opera singer might.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 23 Feb. 2026
After taking his skis off, Klæbo sat hunched over, staring into the snow, before standing up and congratulating his teammates and the rest of the finishers.
—Nathaniel Herz, NPR, 21 Feb. 2026
Another set of photos shows a man who appears to be him hunched on his hands and knees over a woman who is lying prone on the floor.
—Graham Kates, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
The images from the doorbell camera show the intruder approaching the alcoved entryway of Guthrie’s house with his head down, walking hunched over, as if trying to avoid his face being seen.
—Paige Williams, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
Isabella threw the winning stone and hunched close to the ice, watching her brother sweep until their red stone knocked out the Americans’ yellow rock for a 6-5 victory.
—Julia Frankel, Twin Cities, 10 Feb. 2026
Time spent hunched over a screen, trading real, in-person interactions for virtual ones, has negatively impacted many of my clients.
—Brianna Hardcastle, Sun Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hunched
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Ten minutes before the start of Daniel Radcliffe’s one-man show on Broadway, Every Brilliant Thing, the actor is crouched in the aisle.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
5 Mar. 2026
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There is a drawing of a child crouched on a ride-on suitcase, notes for a joke Fleming posted online in January.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
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But his wife’s family lives in Beit Shemesh, where a direct hit Sunday killed nine people huddled in a bomb shelter — the largest single death toll of any strike since Iran’s counterattack began.—
Matt Bradley,
NBC news,
4 Mar. 2026
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Hammond police Officer Elias Guido testified that four young children were huddled together in the woman’s apartment bedroom about seven feet from the two bodies in the hallway.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Mar. 2026
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“Hunched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunched. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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