hunch
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Recently, England have occasionally favoured hunch selections, with some players thrust into Test cricket without a great deal of first-class experience.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
Roberts admits that the “magic number” of $1.46 million is more of a hunch or perception of what people think they’ll need, rather than an official financial calculation.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026
“My hunch is it was shocking,” Mora said of the immigration raids last summer.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
Monahan's own hunch centres on a subtype of the E. coli bacteria in the gut.
From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026
“All we have is a hunch, a hunch that would have taken entirely too long to explain. Besides, last I checked, nobody listened to criminals and their hunches.”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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