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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hunker (down)
Verb
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Ten minutes before the start of Daniel Radcliffe’s one-man show on Broadway, Every Brilliant Thing, the actor is crouched in the aisle.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
5 Mar. 2026 -
The 6-foot-3 Blackmon is crouching down to greet Mabel, who stood about 4-foot-7.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
1 Mar. 2026
Verb
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But everyone else stripped down to their bathing suits, huddling in the heated confines of a womb-like space.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
5 Mar. 2026
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But his wife’s family lives in Beit Shemesh, where a direct hit Sunday killed nine people huddled in a bomb shelter — the largest single death toll of any strike since Iran’s counterattack began.—
Matt Bradley,
NBC news,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Hunker (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunker%20%28down%29. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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