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screeching

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verb

present participle of screech

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And then everything came to a screeching halt and life intervened. Andrew Goldman, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2024 So said Fred Pickel, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s in-house ratepayer advocate, at a DWP board meeting in December 2019, a few months before the pandemic brought everyday life to a screeching halt. Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024 Again in 2020, as travel around the world came to a screeching halt due to the COVID19 pandemic, prices fell. Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024 The drought conditions of early June came to a screeching halt with extraordinary rain and flooding from a slow-moving weather system that soaked South Florida in mid-June. Mack Bernard, Sun Sentinel, 7 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for screeching 

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“Screeching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screeching. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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