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Recent Examples of hunches
David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
Amid hunting for clues on the case, Tom hunches over his desk, lazily shoveling sausage-and-onion sandwiches into his mouth.
—EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
Deep into the opening-night party at the Middleburg Film Festival, Joel Edgerton hunches over a cocktail table, flipping through the event’s official program.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
Amid hunting for clues on the case, Tom hunches over his desk, lazily shoveling sausage-and-onion sandwiches into his mouth.
—EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hunches
Verb
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But then a heavy beat drops, and the figure crouches down into a duckwalk, moving across the walkway in a low bounce before springing up with the circling arm movements of voguing.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
11 May 2026
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The city lies in an urban bowl surrounded by Table Mountain, by the fearsome Lion’s Head, and by the lion’s posterior, known as Signal Hill; some of Cape Town’s prime beachside real estate crouches beneath the Twelve Apostles, a range of (actually 18) similar peaks.—
Gary Shteyngart,
The Atlantic,
17 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Without concrete answers from the city, family members and interested citizens today remain stuck on a number of theories and details about the case.—
Tanya Babbar,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 June 2026
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There's so many wild and big theories on it.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 June 2026
Noun
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Scientists are starting to agree more and more that a bimodal system where there’s two camel humps, instead of two static buckets, is a better reflection of reality, which makes scientific testing extremely complicated.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
26 Mar. 2026
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Detroiters who don't want the speed humps installed along their streets have until April 24 to file an opt-out request.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Talks would persist for the next two years, often in quiet, until the event that would shatter all notions of complacency toward the Israeli-Palestinian status quo.—
Jennifer Cunningham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Dec. 2025
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My mother taught literature at a college on Long Island and had notions about where to send me.—
Joan Silber,
New Yorker,
30 Nov. 2025
Verb
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An engineer overhears a sales call where a partner is requesting a specific feature and immediately huddles with the salesperson once the line clicks shut.—
Vikram Joshi,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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The boiler is broken, so Kuhner huddles by a small space heater in his office in the winter.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The zoo received 1,400 guesses.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
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But those are my are my guesses right there.—
Yvonne Villarreal,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
Noun
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Saturday morning, hundreds of families, friends, healthcare providers and survivors gathered at the San Francisco Zoo to raise awareness and funds for brain tumors and the Northern California Brain Tumor community.—
Brian Hackney,
CBS News,
14 June 2026
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Not long after, her father was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer with recurring tumors that eat away at bone marrow, damaging bones and the immune system.—
Vanessa Etienne,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
Noun
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None of those ideas appeared on the congressional planners’ agenda, but the two teams agreed that there was still time to add more events.—
Michael Scherer,
The Atlantic,
11 June 2026
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Yet there are few signs that any of those cutting-edge business ideas will contribute meaningfully to Tesla’s bottom line in the near term — or ever.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
Cite this Entry
“Hunches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunches. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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