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After reviewing this and other background, I'd stick with my gut hunch.
"My gut hunch," he said of analysts at the Pentagon and the State Department, "is that they are looking at the number of foreign fighters that are turning up in Iraq and saying 'we've got a problem.' " Reactions among families varied.
What makes this all so dangerous is that it not only corrupts policy debates, it undermines serious journalism – and science and history and all other rational disciplines – by rendering their output mere arguments, no more or less credible than someone's dogma, superstition or gut hunch.
But mostly what I felt was relief because finally, finally, my gut hunch had been confirmed.
The Reid Technique relies on a presumption of guilt based on either evidence or, as Leo says, "a gut hunch".
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You may experience intuition as a gut feeling, hunch, a physical sensation, a snapshot-like flash, or a dream.
Intuition is a natural mental ability, said Nadel, whose 1990 book is "Sixth Sense: The Whole Brain Book of Intuition, Hunches, Gut Feelings and Their Place in Your Everyday Life" (Prentice Hall Press, $18.95).
Intuition can even be important to those who do not think of themselves as intuitive, who don't ever recall having had a "gut feeling" or "hunch". In fact, most experts on intuition now argue nearly everyone is intuitive in one way or another.
Sometimes, a little hunch, gut feeling, a funny feeling, an unexpected coincidence, synchronicity, or even a particularly vivid dream can lead you out of a troubled situation to a whole new level of success.
Such terms as "gut feeling", "instinct", "hunch", and "just a feeling" are often used to describe the way our intuition influences our actions and decisions.
Ms. Day has made a career of offering her insight to professional clients and to readers of her books, whom she instructs in the ways of heeding their "gut instincts" and hunches.
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