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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

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

The screech of tablesaws and popping of nail guns break up the silence in the fire-hollowed corners of these neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025

She heard the car suddenly screech and the vehicle head towards the nearby home Mr Ferns shared with his mother Phyliss, where it stopped.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2025

I heard another yelp and then a screech, a long wail that made my teeth chatter.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

Brown kiwis have been reintroduced to a “newly stoat-free Wellington suburb,” where residents now awaken every morning to the screeches and songs of native parrots, pigeons and tuis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

As one locomotive screeches into the old El-Raml Station, commuters and visitors crane their necks out of giant windows at the historic neo-Venetian buildings overhead.

From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026

A few distant screeches of brooms on cobblestone, that’s all.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

Calakmul Biosphere Reserve on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula—The mother bat screeches furiously as Rodrigo Medellín Legorreta grips her, a thumb under her chin to prevent her razor-sharp teeth from sinking into his gloved hand.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 11, 2023

Suddenly there was a commotion in Room C, and the monkeys in that room burst out in wild screeches.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

In Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, a once-thriving business of trading car parts from far-flung places has screeched to a halt due to conflicts at the country's borders.

From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026

Live events screeched to a halt during the Covid-19 pandemic but bounced back coming out of it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

In the 1970s, she observed a stratification between groups of chimpanzees at a national park in Tanzania, with increasing aggression as males screeched and threw objects.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2026

In the media room at the city of Los Angeles Emergency Operations Center in downtown Los Angeles, phones of elected officials, staffers and a handful of reporters screeched in unison.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

Metal groaned and screeched as the whole massive station broke apart.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

The iconic TV character, created for the BBC's former Noel's House Party show in the 1990s, tricked and pranked celebrities, destroyed studio sets and only spoke by screeching his name.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

The kitchen sinks aren’t working, and the plumbing is simultaneously screeching and groaning.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

Every few weeks, we hear tires screeching on the I-80 and occasionally the crunch of metal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

The parallels to contemporary American culture are obvious if not literal, but Ms. Ziegler is too gifted a playwright to shrink a nuanced tragedy into a screeching protest sign.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

Across the room, Gran’s snores were deep and even, undisturbed by the chattering and screeching of the pixies.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff