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verb

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Recent Examples of yammer
Verb
Show creator Taylor Sheridan is ripped, shirtless and yammering about corndogs! William Earl, Variety, 9 Dec. 2024 Brennan and O'Donnell also kept the debate moving, refusing to let either candidate yammer on. Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024 The calendar is about to flip to August, when the already incessant yammering about Tua and the Dolphins, Canes and Gators, another breakup of the Marlins and blah-de-blah will become even more oppressive. Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2024 But nomination conventions are basically multi-day TV events and TV shows benefit from breaking up a sea of yammering politicians with a few pretty famous faces and, therefore, celebs tend to get trotted out. James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2024 Jordan yammers away on the IG, recording every belch of a thought. Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2023 Carlson yammered on about the First Amendment, which guarantees the right to free speech. Bill Goodykoontz, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023 Maybe that’s because the people the request was directed to were too busy yammering to actually hear it. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023 So the easiest course is to yammer on about Hitler while the single female professional down the street takes her own reproductive chocies into her own hands (so to speak). Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2013
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yammer
Noun
  • Families fall asleep to the thump of nearby airstrikes and the constant whine of an Israeli drone overhead.
    Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 25 Dec. 2024
  • The ragged metallic roaring scream of a Boeing 727 ascending eastward, a high-pitched whine building to a thundering roar, fading to a drone.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Trump has complained about China’s rising influence over the canal.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Some consumers have also complained that bulk billing arrangements can burden them with a single, subpar internet service that costs more.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The ultimate effect is paradoxical: the more that Valéry eliminates the ghost of pain and passion from the logical machinery of his work, the starker and more affecting the moans and cries of the ghost become.
    Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Against Notre Dame, the collective moan in the Coliseum with yet another last-minute loss because of Riley’s poor play calling was the breaking point for this lifelong Trojan.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Read Next National Deputies rush to save screaming kids trapped outside burning Colorado home.
    Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 29 Jan. 2025
  • While being average maybe does not quite scream iconic Survivor player at full volume, perhaps that is exactly the point.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Two spa businesses in Baltimore told the Banner that Tucker had been banned immediately after complaints were lodged against him.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Last week, the nonprofit watchdog group the Housing Rights Initiative filed 176 complaints against Chicago landlords for discrimination in the largest housing case in Illinois history.
    Willie Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The van pulled into the street, and the crowd followed, muttering lamentations.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
  • That year an honorary degree was conferred on Jacques Derrida, and when somebody described him as the exponent of deconstruction theory, Brown relates, Prince Philip was overheard muttering that his own family seemed to be deconstructing pretty well.
    Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025

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“Yammer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yammer. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.

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