hunch

“You have a formless hunch, and you move toward it. It’s a mystery, really, why we’re attracted to certain subjects.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

In another group, the tablet lay flat on a desk set at a lower height, which encouraged participants to lean forward and hunch over.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

What eventually provided a breakthrough was a hunch.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

Hartnett suspects the oversold and the overbought may start to reverse respective directions if his hunch is correct that there’s a cyclical upswing in the U.S. economy looming.

From MarketWatch ● May 1, 2026

This was probably just a hunch, but it was an accurate one.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

If you bet money on whims and hunches, you’ll pull it right back out based on gut feelings, too.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

But most are not well versed in sifting through medical research, and separating high-quality evidence from anecdotes and hunches.

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026

Much of the panic driving recent selloffs has been based on futuristic hunches or kneejerk assessments of the impact of new AI tools.

From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026

For all the analysis, match-ups and hunches, India tours of the UK often seem to throw up controversies or off-field problems that alter the direction of the series.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2025

Lawyers typically have little information about potential jurors, so their decisions to strike individual jurors tend to be based on nothing more than stereotypes, prejudices, and hunches.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Even though he had no notable operations outside the U.S., he hunched toward a microphone and said in a halting voice, “Hilcorp is fully committed and ready to go to rebuilding the infrastructure in Venezuela.”

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

Hernández could only watch the ball soar, hunched over.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026

The soundtrack is a series of bleeps and pings as fresh data is fed to dozens of men in T-shirts and hoodies hunched over joysticks and keyboards.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026

Six years earlier, I’d been hunched over a laptop in Melbourne, writing my way into a new career after selling my business.

From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2026

He went the rest of the way inside, shoulders hunched, while Anya held the door open.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

Sinner took lengthy off-court breaks at the end of each set, but continued to struggle, walking gingerly, wincing and hunching over his racquet between points.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

My adult physical life has been a mixed bag of hyper-athletic hot yoga, long country runs and hunching over my computer for days on end.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

And I’m tired of hunching down in front of him and walking backward, offering up bits of kibble to tempt him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

I browsed for hours, and by the time I was done my back was sore from hunching over crates and my arms ached from all the records I was toting around.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2023

“If you give me your pack, I’ll carry it back to town . . .” “Oh no you won’t,” she growled, sliding her arms through the straps and hunching the weight up into place.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols