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also yack
as in to troll
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Recent Examples of yak
But yakking about redrawing California’s congressional maps is easy.
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George Skelton, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
Probabilities decrease the further to the right, but multiplying terms gives one a rough guess of who’s out there yakking it up.
—Clyde Wayne Crews Jr, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Safety car after safety car wailed by, while young fans argued about their favorite drivers and old fans yakked about seasons gone by.
—Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 6 Feb. 2025
At 77, the Republican front-runner may even be slipping in the head, yakking about becoming dictator for a day, taking revenge on opponents and mimicking Hitler rhetoric.
—George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
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George Skelton, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025
Probabilities decrease the further to the right, but multiplying terms gives one a rough guess of who’s out there yakking it up.
—Clyde Wayne Crews Jr, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Safety car after safety car wailed by, while young fans argued about their favorite drivers and old fans yakked about seasons gone by.
—Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 6 Feb. 2025
At 77, the Republican front-runner may even be slipping in the head, yakking about becoming dictator for a day, taking revenge on opponents and mimicking Hitler rhetoric.
—George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yak
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In the two days after Pretti died, Bovino relentlessly trolled Democrats who condemned the shooting—and defended Border Patrol agents as the real victims.—
Donald Moynihan,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2026
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Tony Romo got a little prophetic while trolling Swifties in 2023.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
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The nature of the American political system propagates scads of lawyers and poseurs who blather on endlessly, promising everything and delivering little.—
Laura Washington,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
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Understanding the absurdity of one trillion anything makes the $38 trillion US national debt that economists have been blathering on about for years look almost sensible.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen, and Sam Altman stop by to gab.—
Julia Black,
Vanity Fair,
8 Jan. 2026
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Sisters flit in and out of the house while others gab about the new semester, sipping on iced coffees that are quickly gathering condensation.—
Haley Sawyer,
Oc Register,
4 Sep. 2025
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Erinys doesn't prate about democracy or social betterment but simply guards oil pipelines.—
Bruce Sterling,
WIRED,
1 July 2004
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But rather than keep his discover quiet, the OP—much to everyone else's disappointment—blabbered.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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The man sitting in front of me—rugged, with a fine Rockwell Kent profile—tips forward and begins to emit gentle, bleating snores.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
27 Jan. 2026
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And when her furry black-and-white friend follows her — bleating at her heels, eager for more affection — Kusimayu keeps walking.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
24 Dec. 2025
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But Woolen jawed at the Rams bench while backpedaling with his hands behind his back after the play.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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After jawing with members of McDonnell’s security detail, Reedy got into a heated exchange with Alan Hamilton, a deputy chief who runs the detective bureau.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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Benito finds community with the like-minded Pleneros de la Cresta, who have been playing the island’s pattering folk music for over a decade.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
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As rain pattered against windows, and trees lining the streets swayed, flurries of urgent texts began ricocheting from one end of the neighborhood to the other, and panic set in as some residents put on their shoes and hurried out the door.—
Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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