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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

But Mitchell is a team player, so in the end, Rapaport survives to squawk another day and probably complain about life’s unfairness over that evening’s pasta buffet.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 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

She was pointing out different pictures of long-tail squawk jays and what not, and he was so bubbling over with information that he probably failed to notice Adah can’t talk.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

His mash-up feels fresh, just as the bombastic score by Juri Seppä and Tuomas Wäinölä boldly borrows Ennio Morricone’s soaring horns and wah-wah-waaah squawks while adding its own gargle of Finnish throat singing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

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 bird squawks and my stomach clenches, but then I feel something hard and metal in the grass.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth

Airnav Radar reported that the BA Airbus A321 squawked the 7700 emergency code, which is used when there are mechanical or technical problems on board aircraft.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

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

As they squawked and brayed, a narrator said: “This year, they march in protest. They are peaceful. They are flightless. But they are certainly not voiceless.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2025

Boo, who had only recently been filled in on everything, squawked loudly.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

Two-year-old Yuna Postavna runs around the courtyard of the Kashtan cafe in the city center, squawking at the ravens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 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

For her mother’s birthday on Nov. 12, Ramirez took her to Rosemead Boulevard to witness the unusual sundown spectacle of squawking parrots plunging into the trees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2024

But it was barely intelligible, because Boo was squawking from inside Aru’s cupped hands.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi