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squeal

[skweel] / skwil /






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That shrill, high-pitched squeal you’ve been hearing lately?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

When they get their money, they run madly for the exits, bowling over anyone in their path, and they squeal away in their cars, leaving tire tracks on the road.

From Slate • Nov. 15, 2025

The word “try” is banned—if a student says it, Lee lets out a squeal so loud that the teaching assistant on the other side of the wall can hear it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

"We just heard this squeal, the rev of an engine and a huge, loud impact," Kimberly Stricklen, a visitor to New Orleans, told Reuters.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2025

Just before it hit his knee, the broom leapt out of Jack’s hands and into the air with a squeal.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley




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