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“Stay on That” is one of the slinkier numbers on the album, with rapidly strummed guitars and a wah-wah squawk that recalls Isaac Hayes’s “Theme From Shaft.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

But Mitchell is a team player, so in the end, Rapaport survives to squawk another day and probably complain about life’s unfairness over that evening’s pasta buffet.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026

The plane transmitted a 7700 squawk code - which are broadcast to tell air traffic control that there is an emergency and the aircraft needs priority handling.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025

It seems as if everything you’ve described about this class certification is just obviously correct, and I’m trying to figure out what the DOJ is going to squawk about.

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2025

I open my mouth to squawk, but she turnt to look at me and said, “Is that all right with you, Quincy? I don’t want to offend you with this offer.”

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

"The office cubicle has trapped me again," he squawks on a rambunctious synth-driven stomper that's equal parts Kraftwerk and The Kaiser Chiefs.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

We also passed dense stands of thick-leaved yerba santa, California buckwheat, sugar bush and chilicothe vines and we were treated to the squawks of California scrub jays and a red-tail hawk flying overhead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

A laptop on the center console dings like a supermarket scanner every time license-plate readers attached to the truck capture another car’s tag—and the computer squawks when it spots a possible repo candidate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025

Here, it’s called Stickipoo — and if its robotic squawks and light-saber glow appear on loan from George Lucas, that’s only fair.

From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

From the deepest silence erupt groans and howls, snorts and squawks, creaks and croaks.

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech

Some of them squawked about the slush fund in ways that took me by surprise.

From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026

Parrots and macaws that had outlived their owners squawked in a giant aviary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

As they squawked and brayed, a narrator said: “This year, they march in protest. They are peaceful. They are flightless. But they are certainly not voiceless.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2025

Instead, the backing track squawked for a second and then dead air filled the room, with nary a patriotic chord to be heard.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025

Instead, the bird squawked happily at me, as if to say, Hello, here I am, how are you, and what have you been doing this fine evening?

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis

Some customers have lambasted the bots on social media, while others prefer them to a garbled voice squawking from a speaker box.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

In the ocean-side city of Gloucester, about an hour north of Boston, the sharp smell of salt air has been undercut by the lingering funk of rotting garbage, and squawking seagulls circle overhead.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025

Massry runs from the front of the store to the back, walkie-talkie on his waist squawking as employees request help at the registers.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2024

For her mother’s birthday on Nov. 12, Ramirez took her to Rosemead Boulevard to witness the unusual sundown spectacle of squawking parrots plunging into the trees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2024

Harry shouted, his voice echoing across the empty hilltop, and several blackbirds rose into the air, squawking and spiraling against the pearly sky.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling