banshee
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It was the fewest points the Lakers had scored in a playoff win since 1991 — a real celebration of the banshee stuff the coaches had been preaching for months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025
When he heard the news he says he “wailed like a banshee for 20 minutes”.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2024
At the same time, he continues to throw himself a great pity party, wraps himself in his solipsistic view of victimhood, wailing like a banshee and gnashing his teeth in anger.
From Salon ● May 30, 2024
At times sweet naif, at times screaming banshee, she seems not quite human, like the strange half-duck/half-dog creature that follows her around the scientist’s house.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
Stentor and Siren were just about to make the turn onto Hog Scald Road when there came a terrible banshee scream.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
During a challenge, the contestants - including Alan Carr, Celia Imrie and Lucy Beaumont - were tasked with asking a group of banshees to sing, before relaying the songs down a well.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025
No, really: To that end, Mercedes-Benz likens this — seriously — to how the Na’vi physically connect with their banshees in the 2009 movie Avatar.
From The Verge ● Jan. 7, 2020
The assembly plaintively asks, “Don’t you know any tale of banshees, goblins or witches?”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2017
Parents, don't let your kids run around screaming like banshees, and go to the bathroom to change their diapers, and don't complain about adults using adult language in adult conversations.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2012
The sky screams to deliver it, a hundred banshees flying on the edge of the blizzard.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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