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Theatergoers, myself included, were shrieking with laughter when M3GAN starts crooning Guetta and Sia’s “Titanium” to her BFF Cady.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2023

By that time, brothers in the gallery had passed the limits of endurance and were shrieking their own war whoops.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week they were shrieking at a fever pitch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before young Mr. Brownlee could say oleomargarine, the dairymen of the Hawkeye State were shrieking that his 35-page pamphlet had jeopardized the nation's entire food program, and had wrought "untold injury" to Iowa's $100,000,000-a-year industry.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the boys except Piggy started to giggle; presently they were shrieking with laughter.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding