tu-whit tu-whoo

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Noun
  • Cicadas are back at it again in 2025, already emerging in droves to announce the approach of summer with their screeches.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2025
  • The screech of an infected is the first sign of trouble.
    EW.com, EW.com, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • To keep the soil moist and cool, a mulch of pine bark or pine straw is helpful.
    Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2025
  • While there are about 2,800 species of scorpions, there is only one in the U.S. that's dangerous to humans, according to the University of Arizona Health Sciences: the Arizona bark scorpion.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • Indeed, the baby crow appeared to fall out of a tree, so Buck, from Portland, Oregon, took it upon herself to help him out.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 July 2025
  • But their eggs and hatchlings can get crushed by tractors; they’re also being eaten by foxes, crows and sheep.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But then they are just met with crying meows and scratches at the door.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • The footage shows the beautiful black cat not with a typical meow, but with a series of gentle squeaks.
    Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Similarly to smoke detectors, a carbon monoxide detector will produce a quiet chirp when the battery is low.
    Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 June 2025
  • Immediately after being traded and added to the team’s group chat, the chirps started flying. Bennett, who knocked Marchand out of a couple games of the playoffs last year with a controversial hit, was the first victim.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • But the loudest roar — aside the one for the record strikeout — came when Kershaw bounded out of the dugout to start the sixth.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025
  • The rush of wind and thrum of tire roar was punctuated, not by engine revs and tailpipe cackles, but by birdsong.
    Alistair Charlton, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Tell that to the kids who have been hospitalized and died from measles, following quack Dr. Bobby’s Rx to avoid the shots.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 29 May 2025
  • The Spare Room by Helen Garner This is a book about a woman, Helen, who decides to let her old friend, Nicola, who is dying of cancer, come and stay with her in Melbourne while Nicola sees a local quack doctor.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • When the spotlight hit vocalist Noah Sebastian, a decidedly un-metal chorus of teenage squeals filled the air.
    Cal Roach, jsonline.com, 5 July 2025
  • The gym was quiet, echoing only the squeal of sneakers and pounding of the basketball instead of the music and laughter that typically accompany a pregame training session.
    Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 5 June 2025
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