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Recent Examples of hunched
Hernández could only watch the ball soar, hunched over.
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Liana Handler,
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2026
Deep passion for chess Russia has a deep and proud chess tradition, and amateurs can be seen hunched over boards on pavements and in parks at virtually all times of the year.
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CNN Money,
12 June 2026
Hardworking professionals in cafés, airports, or parks hunched over a laptop while carefully dragging their fingers over their PC’s trackpad to navigate some email, project, or alert that can’t be ignored.
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Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
10 June 2026
There was, for example, the fellow who sat hunched forward in a folding camp chair on the shore of a Wyoming lake where my family and I paused with our camper one summer.
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Byron W. Dalrymple,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2026
The veteran laid a powerful hip check near his own blue line on his final shift in the first period, was hunched over following the whistle, and hobbled down the tunnel to the dressing room shortly after.
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Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
23 May 2026
Rather than being hunched over their game consoles, these guys were reenacting a legend that—according to Liane—dates back to the early Middle Ages, featuring a Catholic maiden called Mata and a Muslim prince called Grifone.
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Lee Marshall,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 May 2026
If you’re hunched over a bowl of mac and cheese, slurping a leftover McFlurry?
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Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
1 May 2026
Raskin, 63, and Kerry dropped to the ground together, and photos captured the congressman hunched over her with his arm around her.
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Kyler Alvord,
PEOPLE,
26 Apr. 2026
Liana Handler,
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2026
Deep passion for chess Russia has a deep and proud chess tradition, and amateurs can be seen hunched over boards on pavements and in parks at virtually all times of the year.
—
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
Hardworking professionals in cafés, airports, or parks hunched over a laptop while carefully dragging their fingers over their PC’s trackpad to navigate some email, project, or alert that can’t be ignored.
—
Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
10 June 2026
There was, for example, the fellow who sat hunched forward in a folding camp chair on the shore of a Wyoming lake where my family and I paused with our camper one summer.
—
Byron W. Dalrymple,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2026
The veteran laid a powerful hip check near his own blue line on his final shift in the first period, was hunched over following the whistle, and hobbled down the tunnel to the dressing room shortly after.
—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
23 May 2026
Rather than being hunched over their game consoles, these guys were reenacting a legend that—according to Liane—dates back to the early Middle Ages, featuring a Catholic maiden called Mata and a Muslim prince called Grifone.
—
Lee Marshall,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 May 2026
If you’re hunched over a bowl of mac and cheese, slurping a leftover McFlurry?
—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
1 May 2026
Raskin, 63, and Kerry dropped to the ground together, and photos captured the congressman hunched over her with his arm around her.
—
Kyler Alvord,
PEOPLE,
26 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hunched
Verb
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The image in question features Grande crouched on the ground while sucking a lollipop and loving a happy black dog.
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The first showed him walking hand-in-hand with his sons, and the second showed Jack crouched down in a church pew as one of his sons played with toys, surrounded by coloring books and stickers.
Verb
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The former hedge fund manager huddled with the Fed’s then-chair, Jerome Powell, and the CEOs of systemically important banks in April to discuss the risks posed by Anthropic’s Mythos.
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In downtown Caracas, hundreds spent the night huddled in parks, parking lots and other open spaces.
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“Hunched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunched. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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