as in shrieks
to cry out loudly and emotionally
the toddler screeched in anger when her stuffed rabbit was taken away
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Recent Examples of screeches
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2026
Sometimes when a studio wants to remake an old movie or TV show and the business affairs team discovers his name attached to one of the parties, the train screeches to a halt.
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Tom Dotan,
Vanity Fair,
23 Feb. 2026
Verb
The series’ opening scene plops audiences in the middle of the Dardanos’ dysfunction, as Linda, presiding over her own mother’s hospital room, screeches that her children should bear witness to their terminally ill nonna’s final days—even to her urinary incontinence.
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Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2026
Sometimes when a studio wants to remake an old movie or TV show and the business affairs team discovers his name attached to one of the parties, the train screeches to a halt.
—
Tom Dotan,
Vanity Fair,
23 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for screeches
Verb
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Back in the car, Albert moans and groans while Billie shrieks in panic.
Noun
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One minute later, cackles rippled through my eardrums at a higher decibel than before.
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As evening falls, the clink of pints and bursts of cackles spill from Pat Collins Pub—where locals swap stories to the rhythm of fiddle tunes beneath an Irish twilight.
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Nothing screams summer like nautical stripes.
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Like why does Bravo think making the captions all different sizes screams Gen Z?
Noun
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Johnson’s first budget made the CARE pilot permanent and doubled staff positions in 2024, to roars of approval from his progressive base.
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The cheers and the roars reverberated around NRG Stadium.
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Soto’s Marie pouts and squeals with abandon.
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At bars across the United States, live watch parties were packed, squeals resounding.
Noun
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Incense usually comes in either cone or stick form and is composed of fragrant material — usually resins, seeds, barks and flowers — that’s bound together using a combustible material.
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Caspar David Friedrich has sketchbooks of particular branches, twigs, barks of different trees.
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Rays pitching coach Kyle Snyder yells a lot of things from the dugout during a game, usually aimed at his own players.
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Sirianni yells to the man, who continues toward the building without a reaction.
Noun
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Through blood-curdling howls and rants about fascism, fraud, and fighting to understand your identity, Truck Violence push through ugliness to find something more unaltered and real.
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Her presence is heralded not by the sounds of howls, roars or clanking chains, but by the shutting of the door to her study, the scrape of her chair as it is pulled towards her desk, and the clanking of her type-writer keys.
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“Screeches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/screeches. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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