See screamery on Wiktionary
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"text": "Oooh, now I am pro battery right? Sure. I myself was a victim of battery by a school bully. How am I coping? Not by flooding USENET with lots of purging primal screamery. Get a life and a friend, you'll feel better.",
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"text": "> Kittens and puppies are gosh-darn adorable, but I'm not interested in\n> actually taking one home. They're as much trouble as a child.\nIt's not fun, but nothing could be as miserable as minding a young sprog. I'd take a year of a piddling, chewing puppy over one week of 3 a.m. screamery and ropy olive-green diarrhea (TM).",
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"text": "Just like you can't go to dinner at Mariah Carey's without looking at all of her gold records one by one while telling her, No, she looks just as skinny as when she filmed the \"Endless Love\" video, you can't have the Housewives at your party with^([sic]) a little bit of screamery.",
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