screeching

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• The year 2020 brought the global economy to a screeching halt, but it proved to be an astonishingly good year for India’s richest billionaire.

• The booming e-scooter business came to a screeching halt in mid-March as the coronavirus crisis picked up steam across the globe.

• Even if doctors wanted to try a lung transplant on a Covid-19 patient, organ donation came to a screeching halt at the beginning of the US pandemic, and transplant rates plummeted across the board.

• Everything I had worked so hard to build in New York City as a media personality came to a screeching halt.

• Not only did our own daily routines come to a screeching halt, for many of us our professional lives did as well.

• Lindsey Graham can barely get ISIS out of his mouth before blowing his shpadoinkle and screeching "we may all get killed!"

• The force that inspires defiant videos and top-of-their-lungs screeching tweens is, in fact, a media-shy 43-year old Swedish… man.

• In his screeching desperation, it sounds far more like “You can tell her what I wanted to be.”

• The progress Whitmire and the committee was making came to a screeching halt when George W. Bush became governor in 1995.

• Given a screeching demagogue and an evenhanded, mild-mannered technocrat, people will always be more drawn to the former.

• No Indian was ever hit more fairly, surprised more suddenly, or extinguished more utterly.