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Recent Examples of hunchedTendons, ligaments and muscles naturally shorten with time, which results in stiff joints and people being hunched over and shuffling around.—Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025 On a large scale LED screen, a white cheeked spider monkey sits hunched over a smart phone within a smouldering virtual Brazilian forest landscape, occasionally glancing up at his viewers.—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025 The sight of him, hunched over and sickly, gives Meiyun the chills.—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
The crowd crouched – then sprinted away from the canopy.
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Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
And over the past nine months, a team of judges has been measuring it, pinpointing the exact location of the wave’s base, then stacking images of Slebir’s crouched pose on top of each other like a totem pole up the face of the wave.
Inside, hundreds of people huddled together, crying.
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Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
On fourth down a flag was thrown for what looked like pass interference on the Mustangs, but after the officials huddled, the penalty was waved off giving the ball back to the Bulldogs.
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Darren Lauber,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Sep. 2025
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