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Studies come to a screeching halt, we are now just beginning to make up for decades of lost time. – David Hellerstein	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We could hear more tires screeching, and then just barely see headlights coming in through the fog. – Caleb Holder	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I'm in the process of putting together a team of people that feel the exact same way that I do. This is not a' Never Trump' situation. This not just screeching rhetoric. This is -- OK, the guy is unstable. Everyone inside knows it, everyone outside knows it. Let's see if we can find a viable alternative. – Anthony Scaramucci	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The foundational knowledge of the future is your own ability to learn and adapt, because if you don't your career will come to a screeching halt after a couple of years. – Heather McGowan	Found on CNN 5 years ago
(The accelerated planting pace) is coming to a screeching halt with possible and probably delays. – Brian Hoops	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The train came to a screeching halt and I thought that it may have hit something. – Amar Nath	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We were told to bring everything to a screeching halt. – Norbert Hardtke	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
And right then, there must have been around nine vehicles pull up screeching, doors opening before vehicles even stop. I got a Suburban about 15 yards off to my right, Ninja turtles jumping out, AR15s, everything, and I just go, 'Oh, that's what that was.'. – Eric McDavid	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I heard 11 to 14 shots and heard screeching tires and sirens, so I knew something was happening, i went outside and saw lots of officers running towards a body and some running the other way. The officers were standing over the body but when the paramedics arrived they stood up right away. – Patrick Dowless	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds. – Lydia Child	added by anonymous 10 years ago

Studies come to a screeching halt, we are now just beginning to make up for decades of lost time.

– David Hellerstein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We could hear more tires screeching, and then just barely see headlights coming in through the fog.

– Caleb Holder

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I'm in the process of putting together a team of people that feel the exact same way that I do. This is not a' Never Trump' situation. This not just screeching rhetoric. This is -- OK, the guy is unstable. Everyone inside knows it, everyone outside knows it. Let's see if we can find a viable alternative.

– Anthony Scaramucci

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The foundational knowledge of the future is your own ability to learn and adapt, because if you don't your career will come to a screeching halt after a couple of years.

– Heather McGowan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

(The accelerated planting pace) is coming to a screeching halt with possible and probably delays.

– Brian Hoops

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The train came to a screeching halt and I thought that it may have hit something.

– Amar Nath

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We were told to bring everything to a screeching halt.

– Norbert Hardtke

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

And right then, there must have been around nine vehicles pull up screeching, doors opening before vehicles even stop. I got a Suburban about 15 yards off to my right, Ninja turtles jumping out, AR15s, everything, and I just go, 'Oh, that's what that was.'.

– Eric McDavid

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I heard 11 to 14 shots and heard screeching tires and sirens, so I knew something was happening, i went outside and saw lots of officers running towards a body and some running the other way. The officers were standing over the body but when the paramedics arrived they stood up right away.

– Patrick Dowless

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

– Lydia Child

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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