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verb

present tense third-person singular of hunch

as in crouches

to lie low with the limbs close to the body he hunched next to a bush to avoid being seen

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noun

plural of hunch

as in theories

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Recent Examples of hunches

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Sandra Ogbebor hunches over her softly humming refrigerator and scours through bottles before finally yanking out an orange juice. — Light Oriye Tamunotonye, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Sep. 2026 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

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The child folds over and crouches on the ground while the performance continues for several seconds.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026
Sometimes a less reliable dog will smell in this manner the hot body scent of venison as a trembling doe crouches close in the brush upwind.

— Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 15 July 2026

Definition of crouches

Noun

But there are many theories about why people are attracted to true crime, with serial killers being the stars of that world.

— Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
Until then, it was thought bats might’ve emerged somewhere in North America, among other theories.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of theories

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Who else to argue with about the last humps of the Slinky Dog Dash ride?

— Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026
On Laurel Street, a short residential thoroughfare, speeds fell from between 25 to 30 mph to less than 20 mph after speed humps were added.

— Cameron Pugh, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of humps

Noun

The notions of a coaching tree and writing being open to everyone are in answer to Terrell’s own experience growing up in Kansas City as an aspiring writer.

— Anne Kniggendorf, Kansas City Star, 27 Oct. 2026
Western traditions of symmetry and notions of linear time are upended.

— Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of notions

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Despite his injury, Tasci continued to be an active participant on the sideline and in team huddles throughout the game.

— Sean Campbell, Daily News, 28 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of huddles

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The chips in question are BM1370s, which together draw up to 600 W of power, and peak at a hashrate (how many guesses per second a miner makes) of 34 TH/s or 34 trillion guesses per second.

— Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2026
Other guesses had commenters point to The Substance, The Little Mermaid’s Ursula, SpongeBob, and the Demogorgons from Stranger Things.

— Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of guesses

Noun

They’re often diagnosed at later stages with tumors with more aggressive features.

— Angus Chen, STAT, 29 Oct. 2026
Researchers are studying the cancer-killing drug trastuzumab rezetecan for those with ERBB2-low metastatic breast cancer, whose tumors have low levels of HER2, a protein that can help cancer cells grow.

— Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of tumors

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Copyright protects a program’s code, Grimmelmann says, but not the algorithms and ideas the code implements.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2026
Almost all the controls were electronic buttons, and the dashboard was entirely digital—two ideas that sound reasonable today but were nightmarishly complex in the mid-1970s.

— Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2026

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