hunch

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“My hunch is it was shocking,” Mora said of the immigration raids last summer.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

She confirmed her hunch by tracking the recent and 10-year performance of FedEx shares.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 8, 2026

Monahan's own hunch centres on a subtype of the E. coli bacteria in the gut.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

My hunch is that many who are making this false claim about the stocks-bonds correlation are overly fixated on the 60/40 portfolio’s 2022 loss, believing that a loss that large sounded the portfolio’s death knell.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 15, 2026

When Morley proposed his theory, it was little more than a hunch.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann