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
Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce was being interviewed on national broadcaster ABC on Monday night when he interrupted the one-on-one to shriek "sit down!"
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
It’s an inspired bit of marketing for a series that found the sweet spot between comedy and horror, making us shriek with laughter and revulsion, sometimes simultaneously.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
It keeled over with a shriek of metal and hit the next lamppost, which collapsed sideways into the next.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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Seriously, the dude’s shrieks could be heard echoing in the A’s dugout on the NBC Sports California broadcast of the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Occasionally Mr. Paul’s violin swoons and shrieks in a manner we associate with the instrument, but he’s just as likely to use it as a starting point for an electronic drone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
There were shrieks of relief and whoops of disbelief, tears and fireworks and renditions of “Empire State of Mind” and “New York, New York.”
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
"Celia shrieks strangely," read one, while another said: "They repeat the wail."
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025
She heard frightening bird shrieks and the dry sounds of something moving under the floorboards.
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
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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
Gingersnipes shrieked, reeling back into the table, sending a clatter of teacups to the floor.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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The course record is 39 seconds and change, set by the shrieking McMurtry Spéirling hypercar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 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
And hundreds of Cloud-Men’s children were frisking about all over the place and shrieking with laughter and sliding down the billows of the cloud on toboggans.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
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