Sentence examples for best hunch from inspiring English sources

It's time to revisit the best hunch he ever had: hooking up with the Beatles.

Since the 1980s, theorists' best hunch has been that it consists of so-called weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs.

Shows of this kind are of necessity simulations fuelled by speculation: some elements are based on what most palaeontologists are very confident about from the fossil record, some are what their current best hunch is, and some are possible but far from probable scenarios weaved in to make it more gripping television.

What's left is ordinary folks who are muddling along, living out their best hunches about what is good and what is real, rather like the rest of us.

Doing so requires subjective judgments at best and hunches or guesswork at worst.

Responses from statement 1 ('A scientific theory that explains a natural phenomenon can be defined as a "best guess" or "hunch"') revealed that 77.6% (n = 59) of participants correctly interpreted the term theory as used in a scientific context whereas 18.4% (n = 14) failed to differentiate between the scientific concept of theory and its usage in common vernacular.

However, when a statement is put forth that includes a common misconception, such as BEL Survey statement 1, 'A scientific theory that explains a natural phenomenon can be classified as a "best guess" or "hunch"', students tend to agree with the misconception (Almquist and Cronin [1988]; Cunningham and Wescott [2009]).

In any event, this remains at best a very controversial hunch rather than something which has been uncontroversially demonstrated.

"At best it was a hunch that something was in there," said one.

"We're left with hunches and best guesses.

At the time, most ex perimental television used mechanical image‐scanning systems, but Mr. Sarnoff had a hunch that the best future for television lay in an all‐electronic system.