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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
Noun
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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This time around, while Chambers remains turned away, Teasdale crouches with an unsettling smile and long fingernails, conjuring a skin-crawling suspense.—
Sophie Williams,
Billboard,
10 Oct. 2025
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This is all before Raleigh crouches behind the plate for roughly three hours, calling 150 pitches a night and manning a 13-person pitching staff’s stuff, repertoire, and personality.—
Brittany Ghiroli,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Jason Oppenheim, president and founder of The Oppenheim Group, addressed the theories during an interview with PEOPLE in August 2020.—
Samantha Stutsman,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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There will always be such corners of the Universe, because all of our theories rely on some assumptions, some approximations, and have some boundaries.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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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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Traffic-calming measures such as electronic speed monitors, analog stop signs and speed humps require significant fundraising.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But Interview With the Vampire set a precedent for transformative TV from the Immortal Universe, its narrative and visual audacity subverting adaptation tropes and genre storytelling by challenging viewers’ notions of immortality, sexuality, and destiny.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
25 Oct. 2025
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Contrary to the previous notions about our youth, their inherent power and unidentified skillsets could put them in a position to change their own lives, with the proper guidance.—
Essence,
Essence,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Jalen Brunson #11 of the New York Knicks huddles with his team during the fourth quarter against the Indiana Pacers in Game Four of the Eastern Conference Finals of the 2025 NBA Playoffs at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on May 27, 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana.—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And leave your guesses for who will take the title in 2025 in the comments below!—
Alex Apatoff,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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The mysterious clip prompted WWE fans to share their best guesses of which superstar might be in the video, including one WWE star who has been out of the spotlight for a bit.—
Matthew Couden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In the brain, MRI can differentiate between white matter and gray matter and can also be used to diagnose aneurysms and tumors.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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The scans are often used to check for aneurysms of cerebral vessels, conditions of the eye and inner ear, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord conditions, stroke, tumors and brain injury from trauma.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The shareholder meetings give the youngest Browns in the sixth and seventh generations, and their distant cousins, a chance to meet and bounce ideas off one another.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
26 Oct. 2025
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Few characters are as beloved as those from The Wizard of Oz (1939), making for reliable costume ideas year after year.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Hunches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunches. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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