hunch

“We’re here on what I would call a hunch or, at best, a suspicion,” said Brian Perkins, an attorney representing multiple victims in the case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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

And so the striker's hunch proved correct - he did have a role to play.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

Ryan Sohn, Rigor Hill’s co-owner, opened the store in 2022 on the hunch that diners who eat at Michelin-star restaurants would also pay top dollar for takeaway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

“That night they moved the statue and I stayed in the washroom and didn’t get caught. That was a hunch. Even if I didn’t know it was a hunch at the time.”

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

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

Saving for a goal that’s decades away, we might trade on this week’s hopes, fears, headlines and hunches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

"At that time publishers were much more prepared to back their hunches," he said.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025

Her father hunches over his slanted ink-stained table by the window, sketching, smoking, listening to the Voice of America.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

Instead, he was hunched over in a single foldout plastic chair in an otherwise empty room, looking spent.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026

Williams sat hunched as he said "not guilty" to each of the charges.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

Once again, Walker Kessler sat hunched forward, ears and eyes intently locked onto the person whose words would change his life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

“Those last scenes with me looking like a lonely old lady walking hunched over in the garden? Boy, I told him to get rid of those,” she said, referring to the documentary’s director, R.J.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2026

Clare hunched farther over the kindling and struck the monocle again and again, looking back and forth from the unlit tinder to the spirit floating above him.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

She is unassuming, often hunching her shoulders and bowing her head modestly as she walks toward the starting blocks before a race.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2022

"Then I saw a monkey hunching over my child."

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2022

Do not round your back by hunching or arching it.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2022

I stood in the middle of the floor, hunching.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides