Meaning & use
hunches
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Intuitive feelings or guesses about something, not based on solid evidence or proof.
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Detective Reyes played her hunches and searched the abandoned warehouse first.
I had a couple of hunches about who sent the anonymous letter.
A note on using this word
As a verb, "hunches" also describes the act of bending the body forward, as in "he hunches over his desk all day."
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Another way to use it
2. verb
Bends the body forward and down, typically rounding the shoulders and back.
He hunches over his laptop for hours without a break.
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