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Recent Examples of hunched
The performance seemed designed to suggest that, away from the cameras, the Russian leader spends his time hunched over maps of the battlefield.
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Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
1 July 2026
Roden-Reynolds, the epidemiologist Lea Hamner, and Virginia Barbatti, the executive director of a nonprofit called Tick Free Martha’s Vineyard, were hunched over their laptops at locations around the island, scrutinizing a map of enemy encampments.
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Burkhard Bilger,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
Head down, shoulders hunched, and fingers flying on a keypad with the intensity of an individual suffering from an addiction.
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Michael Gerling,
Fortune,
24 June 2026
Hernández could only watch the ball soar, hunched over.
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Liana Handler,
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2026
Deep passion for chess Russia has a deep and proud chess tradition, and amateurs can be seen hunched over boards on pavements and in parks at virtually all times of the year.
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CNN Money,
12 June 2026
Hardworking professionals in cafés, airports, or parks hunched over a laptop while carefully dragging their fingers over their PC’s trackpad to navigate some email, project, or alert that can’t be ignored.
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Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
10 June 2026
There was, for example, the fellow who sat hunched forward in a folding camp chair on the shore of a Wyoming lake where my family and I paused with our camper one summer.
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Byron W. Dalrymple,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2026
The veteran laid a powerful hip check near his own blue line on his final shift in the first period, was hunched over following the whistle, and hobbled down the tunnel to the dressing room shortly after.
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Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
23 May 2026
Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
1 July 2026
Roden-Reynolds, the epidemiologist Lea Hamner, and Virginia Barbatti, the executive director of a nonprofit called Tick Free Martha’s Vineyard, were hunched over their laptops at locations around the island, scrutinizing a map of enemy encampments.
—
Burkhard Bilger,
New Yorker,
29 June 2026
Head down, shoulders hunched, and fingers flying on a keypad with the intensity of an individual suffering from an addiction.
—
Michael Gerling,
Fortune,
24 June 2026
Hernández could only watch the ball soar, hunched over.
—
Liana Handler,
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2026
Deep passion for chess Russia has a deep and proud chess tradition, and amateurs can be seen hunched over boards on pavements and in parks at virtually all times of the year.
—
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
Hardworking professionals in cafés, airports, or parks hunched over a laptop while carefully dragging their fingers over their PC’s trackpad to navigate some email, project, or alert that can’t be ignored.
—
Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
10 June 2026
There was, for example, the fellow who sat hunched forward in a folding camp chair on the shore of a Wyoming lake where my family and I paused with our camper one summer.
—
Byron W. Dalrymple,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2026
The veteran laid a powerful hip check near his own blue line on his final shift in the first period, was hunched over following the whistle, and hobbled down the tunnel to the dressing room shortly after.
—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
23 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hunched
Verb
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After getting broken to fall behind 2-4 in the third, Djokovic attempted to knock a ball back to the ball boy, who was crouched beside the umpire’s chair.
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The image in question features Grande crouched on the ground while sucking a lollipop and loving a happy black dog.
Verb
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Inside at Revel Lounge, half the après crowd sips cocktails in robes and slippers while the other half have logged back on with work and are huddled away in the bar’s many discreet nooks and corners.
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My high-octane mutt was leaping around the patio table and barking excitedly while my neighbors huddled together over their steaks.
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“Hunched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunched. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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