hunch

The practice of pulling over random vehicles, often based on little more than a hunch, has been a cornerstone of the city’s crime-fighting strategy for decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

But what if you have a hunch that one group will be a drag, or if you have ethical or religious reasons not to profit from certain businesses?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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

On a hunch, San Martín went out the back door and, sure enough, found telltale footprints in the snow.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

The government’s explanations for the arrests, wrote Judge Jennifer Thurston in Fresno, “rely on unsupported assumptions, hunches and generalizations about the relationship between a person’s apparent status as a day laborer and their immigration status.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 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

The audience rehashed its hunches, they circled potential suspects, they stared at a static image of a horrific crime scene, awash in twinkling moonlight.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026

New discoveries and old hunches borne out by computer analysis have indicated how often and how deeply he collaborated with writers such as Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd and John Fletcher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

He sits down, hunches over .his desk, and fixes his eyes on me like I’m a suspect he needs to crack.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven

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

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

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

It was a small place, crisscrossed with dirt roads that strung together a hundred-odd weathered brick houses hunched up on sandy soil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

While bringing up the Black, Vegan, and Proud YouTube channel, I sat hunched forward, mere inches from the screen.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

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

A heating pad pressed on a particularly tight area of your lower back can help it feel looser after a long day of lifting boxes or hunching at your computer.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

“Untitled” opens with Joseph Sissons moving center stage, legs unfurling to the sky, torso hunching forward, body propelling into the air before coming to a dead stop.

From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2023

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

Teeth squeals, hunching back on his haunches and grooming his paws.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz