hunch
Example Sentences
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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
She wanted to prove her hunch: that even these exotic creatures followed the same cycle as the European caterpillars she had already studied so thoroughly.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
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"A Village After Dark" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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