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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
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as in theories

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as in humps

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as in notions

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Recent Examples of hunches
Verb
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hunches
  1. crouches
  2. theories
  3. humps
  4. notions
  5. huddles
  6. guesses
  7. tumors
  8. ideas
Verb
  • Spreading her clawed toes against the floor of the nest, Snaggletooth crouches and pounces at the fly.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The child folds over and crouches on the ground while the performance continues for several seconds.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026
Definition of crouches
Noun
  • The gist of the theories, Rothschild said, is that a secret plot is underway to reset the global financial system.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The podcaster Candace Owens drove those theories, infuriating her former employer, Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro.
    — Max Tani, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of theories
Noun
  • Even girls of eleven or twelve could be seen lugging elevated humps behind them, like small unhappy camels.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Who else to argue with about the last humps of the Slinky Dog Dash ride?
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of humps
Noun
  • Move beyond antiquated notions of making your first three seconds a logo and a tagline.
    — Phoena Pang, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Sitting on the eastern edge of the Sonoran Desert, Tucson, Arizona, dispels all such notions.
    — Tovar Cerulli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of notions
Verb
  • San Andrés Mixquic, Mexico — As night falls over the cemetery in San Andrés Mixquic, a historic village on the outskirts of Mexico City, the family of Ángel Jiménez del Águila huddles around his grave.
    — Rocio Muñoz Ledo, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2026
  • 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
Definition of huddles
Noun
  • To prevent lucky guesses, the AI must uncover enough information to justify its decision, Visa said.
    — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The complete absence of such false positives showed that the successful trials weren’t just lucky guesses.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of guesses
Noun
  • In contrast to many high-income settings, children with malignant diseases such as leukemias and solid tumors represent a relatively small proportion – about 4% – of patients who would benefit from a palliative care approach.
    — Emilee Flynn, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2026
  • When tumors grow, for example, oxidative stress in the body increases, which leads to the breakdown of fatty molecules within cells into smaller, volatile compounds, Woollam says.
    — Marta Zaraaska, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of tumors
Noun
  • Doing so will help demonstrate your research, credit the sources of your information and ideas, and allow your readers to find and evaluate those sources.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Eventually, older print publications like the Atlantic began putting more content online and the marketplace of online ideas grew.
    — Ted Anthony, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of ideas

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