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Recent Examples of hunches
David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
Amid hunting for clues on the case, Tom hunches over his desk, lazily shoveling sausage-and-onion sandwiches into his mouth.
—EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
Deep into the opening-night party at the Middleburg Film Festival, Joel Edgerton hunches over a cocktail table, flipping through the event’s official program.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for hunches
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This time around, while Chambers remains turned away, Teasdale crouches with an unsettling smile and long fingernails, conjuring a skin-crawling suspense.—
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This is all before Raleigh crouches behind the plate for roughly three hours, calling 150 pitches a night and manning a 13-person pitching staff’s stuff, repertoire, and personality.—
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Those are, indeed, pat, credible theories and predictions.—
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But now, in the planet’s capital city of Apperax, a murder is committed with no suspects, forensics or theories.—
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Over the summer, crews in Pittsburgh installed traffic calming measures near three elementary schools, including curb extensions and ADA ramps near Pittsburgh Arlington, speed humps outside Propel Hazelwood K-8 and a pedestrian refuge near Pittsburgh Faison K-5.—
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And a four-corner hydraulic-lift system takes the worry out of speed humps or heavily rutted roads.—
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But a more recent line of research has pushed back against these notions, using statistical analysis to suggest that the apparent variations in response are just the result of measurement error and day-to-day biological variability.—
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Beau McCall understands the affective power of buttons—these commonplace household notions have captured his imagination for decades.—
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While the team occasionally huddles, Rivers usually calls plays from the sideline.—
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In the series finale's last moments, the whole family huddles together at Claire and Phil's house to take one more group selfie.—
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But conclusions are guesses, not guides.—
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Those are all good guesses, because who else would carry that amount of cash in a shoebox and wait on a main street to hand it over to a complete stranger?—
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Torney was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer with recurring tumors that eat away at bone marrow, damaging bones and the immune system.—
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For example, treating slow-growing tumors with surgery, radiation or chemotherapy could create significant side effects without a survival benefit.—
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Both are confident, charismatic personalities who are comfortable espousing ideas that spark controversy, even within their own parties.—
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“Hunches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunches. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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