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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hunker (down)
Verb
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At the other end of the pitch, Robert Lewandowski crouches down on his haunches, eyes looking everywhere and nowhere, their nothingness saying everything.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
1 Apr. 2026 -
When The Times connected with Reyes, she was crouched down backstage at the Lovinger Theatre at Lehman College in the Bronx.—
Andrea Flores,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2026
Verb
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We were huddled shoulder to shoulder on the floor at my bedroom door, listening at the decent-size crack.—
Kate Crane,
Rolling Stone,
2 Apr. 2026
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Others huddle in tents pulled together from sheets of tarp along the curving coastal corniche or around Horsh Beirut, a park of pine trees on the outskirts of an area of the southern suburbs known as Dahiyeh.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Hunker (down).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunker%20%28down%29. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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