squawk
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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
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
Since this show came out, now people squawk chicken noises at me in the street.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
As he still hesitated, Kehaar let out a squawk.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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
The honks and squawks of ibises and louries - shuffling silhouettes in the leafless trees.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2023
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
The sounds of squawks and meows could be heard as chickens and stray cats roamed among the vehicles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
A high- schooler squawks: “He’s got the finsterwallies!”
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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
Molting peacocks squawked in the distance and a Pacific breeze whispered through the eucalyptus as flamingo keeper Liz Gibbons tidied her station at the San Francisco Zoo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 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
The chickens squawked and flapped around the barn, Håkon’s distress sending them into a tizzy.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
For these cars, and these engineers, the Blue Bird of Happiness sounds like a squawking flock of Michelins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Ada, 36, is strolling on the beach, unfazed by the wail of air alert sirens mingling with the squawking of seagulls.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026
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
But only in the careful hands of scientists who don’t have Musk squawking “go faster!” over their shoulders.
From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2024
They were like a maddening chorus of crows, squawking in Matthias’ ear: Traitor, traitor, traitor.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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