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squealing

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verb

present participle of squeal
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Recent Examples of squealing
Verb
In the clip, Niney is pictured talking calmly on his cell phone as Gasly races around him in the Alpine car, squealing the tires. Miles Socha, Footwear News, 29 June 2026 Pigs that were being hauled by the semi could be heard squealing at the scene. Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 23 June 2026 Automatic weapons blasting, tires squealing, the whole bit. Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 3 June 2026 There were no odd noises or squealing bearings to indicate the fan was having trouble. Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 16 May 2026 The first twenty minutes involve longtime Holzinger mentor-cum–ensemble member Renée Copraij spanking the gleefully squealing Annina Machaz. Caroline Lillian Schopp, Artforum, 13 May 2026 The adults settle into seats facing each other while children from different families run behind them, squealing, playing, crying. Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2026 Visceral sounds of gyaaaaaaa (ギャアアアアア) convey squealing tires, while turbo blow-off valves let out a sweet doa (ドア). Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 9 Apr. 2026 Or is Emily Flippen to blame for all of this for squealing to Rizo that Dee told her about his idol? Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for squealing
Adjective
  • On shrill winter nights, Moscow’s power is conspicuous, its Orthodox cathedrals and Stalinist high-rises illuminated, though the view falls dim in the autumn and spring, shrouded in sheets of greige.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The chaos is still an acceptable price to pay for Birney’s expertly offputting performance, a shrill mania that gets increasingly comic over time.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Cholowsky visited Chicago for a few days in early June, talking to coaches and executives, hanging out with players and listening to Jerry Reinsdorf’s baseball stories.
    Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 12 July 2026
  • Yet nobody could remember ever seeing the man in a cowboy hat before 2024, when he was spotted talking to residents about lawsuits against the local dump.
    Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
Verb
  • Kids are shrieking through their favorite splash pads, faces sticky with Bomb Pop juice and joy.
    Mark Glende, Twin Cities, 2 July 2026
  • Raph and Grant keep tasting wasabi Oreos, with Raph shrieking and Grant grimacing.
    Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 16 June 2026
Verb
  • From the outset of the selloff earlier this year, Jim Cramer was screaming from the rooftops that cyber should never have been lumped into run-of-the-mill enterprise software.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 7 July 2026
  • There were no vendors hawking bootleg royal-wedding merch, no screaming lines of fans, not even that many impromptu sing-alongs (some were solicited by journalists looking for content).
    Zach Schiffman, Curbed, 6 July 2026
Adjective
  • And Paul certainly seems more shaken, less strident than in the previous films, having unleashed a wave of intergalactic bloodletting.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 8 July 2026
  • Pochettino, of course, is not the only successful coach with strident beliefs about energy — or its cousin, enthusiasm.
    Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 30 June 2026
Verb
  • So everyone’s just barely squeaking by.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
  • But in early June last year, the Red Sox entered a series in New York at 30-34, nine games behind the first-place Yankees, before going 10-3 in their next 13 games, finishing the year on a 59-39 run and squeaking into the playoffs.
    Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 6 June 2026
Verb
  • In the 57-second video, which could not be independently verified by PEOPLE, Mason walks away multiple times before turning back to continue yelling back and forth with Donalds.
    Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 8 July 2026
  • During the Cape Verde–versus-Argentina game, the YouTuber and Twitch streamer recorded a woman yelling racial slurs at him during the game.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 7 July 2026
Verb
  • Rodriguez said in a May phone interview with the Herald that detainees had been complaining when a guard approached him and told him to walk out of the cage where he and other men were housed.
    Churchill Ndonwie, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2026
  • These reviews are overall mixed with positive reviews praising USGB’s customer service and negative ones complaining about frequent marketing calls.
    Javier Simon, USA Today, 11 July 2026

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“Squealing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squealing. Accessed 15 Jul. 2026.

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