shriek
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But AI remains unregulated, shriek those wedded to an undynamic view of reality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
It was an unremarkable night after an unremarkable day in mid-July, and my husband and I were getting ready for bed in our Midtown Manhattan apartment when he let out a blood-curdling shriek.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
A shriek broke the dawn on the savannah, followed by more screeches and the rustle of branches: The wild Fongoli chimps were bidding each other good morning in the dry, scraggly Sahel.
From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026
Children shriek with delight from the new playground at the Palisades Recreation Center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
It drags me up out of a dream: a shriek like a demon’s cry.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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When the congregation responds with rhythmic panting that slowly builds to shrieks of grief and passion, Ann finally feels at home — the burdens she’s been carrying all her life, cast into the ether.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025
They finished a roughly $3,000 project to add french doors to their living room to create an office space insulated from the shrieks of their almost-2-year-old.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
"Celia shrieks strangely," read one, while another said: "They repeat the wail."
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025
It was a mini-Disneyland inside the Sparks’ building on Kids Day, the entire bowl pulsing with shrieks, slaps and sugar highs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
The playground, which up to then had been filled with shrieks and the shouting of children at play, all at once became silent as the grave.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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Spectators shrieked when the sun vanished altogether and looked around with their glasses off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Another young woman shrieked as she sailed above us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
"How do you think I feel?... He set me up," he shrieked.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026
At the second smaller stage, dancers shrieked as confetti cannons fired simultaneously with a bass drop, glitter falling like shimmering rain.
From Barron's ● Nov. 23, 2025
My mom shrieked like she’d seen a rat.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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But you wouldn’t want to make this determination based on the shrieking of the self-interested.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
She watched intently perched on a bench at the very front of the room, at times shrieking and nudging her sister as she pointed at the cafe’s new large flat-screen that loomed overhead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
The second pilot meets their passengers’ fear with hysteria, shrieking, outburst—that pilot shames their passengers, saying, “I can’t do my job because of YOU.”
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
I’ll pause here for general gasping and shrieking, and murmurs of, “Wait, there’s a dividend?”
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
The chirrup of crosswalk signals, the shrieking of sirens, the hissing of air brakes, even the hushed chatter of people strolling on the sidewalk—I heard every sound individually.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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