screech
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In fact, any birder will tell you that the sky-rending screech that accompanies bald eagles in most media depictions actually belongs to a red-tailed hawk.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2026
The day after high school graduation, Dolly boarded the first bus for Nashville, where record producers said she sounded like a screech owl and was too country to sing country music.
From Salon • Jan. 19, 2026
Pareja then saw the housing market screech to a halt during the Great Recession, a crisis in which subprime mortgages were a central cause.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 12, 2025
Nail guns tat-tat-tat and chain saws screech on almost every block.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025
Maybe night noises scared them—the barking of foxes, the shrill screech of owls, the rustle of unseen deer in the woods.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
Vocabulary lists containing screech
"The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry
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