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as in prattle
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to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely
customers yammered on for what seemed like days about the billing mistake
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Recent Examples of yammering
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
Thomas, for all his proprietary yammering about his young wards, turns out to have fatally underestimated them.
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Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
But ultimately, it's created a lot of yammering and once everyone went to video and once old school mainstream show business started to collapse in on itself, people were really able through bubbles and tribalization, able to build their own show business empires.
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H. Alan Scott,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Aug. 2025
Peter Bogdanovich,
IndieWire,
13 May 2026
There’s also an inanimate object that directly affects Paul’s future so profoundly that this small prop might as well be a lurking, yammering figure in the diner.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
21 Feb. 2026
Noun
Unlike the coolly impassive Pop artists, the Who weren’t afraid to get personal, or to let their art echo the anxious, kinky, maladjusted yammering in their own heads.
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Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
Thomas, for all his proprietary yammering about his young wards, turns out to have fatally underestimated them.
—
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
But ultimately, it's created a lot of yammering and once everyone went to video and once old school mainstream show business started to collapse in on itself, people were really able through bubbles and tribalization, able to build their own show business empires.
—
H. Alan Scott,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Aug. 2025
Verb
Lots of fussy bow-tie types yammering about Renoir.
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Peter Bogdanovich,
IndieWire,
13 May 2026
There’s also an inanimate object that directly affects Paul’s future so profoundly that this small prop might as well be a lurking, yammering figure in the diner.
—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
21 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yammering
Adjective
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Either that, or the Daily Mail editors had a howling good time with publication dates.
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In the elk- and deer-rich areas of northern Yellowstone National Park, ravens are often among the first scavengers to arrive on the scene, swooping down to feast on scraps left behind by the howling canines.
Noun
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After Messi and his team's loss to Saudi Arabia in November 2022, the athlete told reporters, per The Mirror, that Mateo left the stadium crying.
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This is not the kid-crying, shoulder-to-shoulder type of resort; outside of newer guests, there are families who have been coming here for years and understand the groove of it all, from toddlers to teenagers.
Noun
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The Korean Football Association was furious, responding to this juvenile, but ultimately harmless, prattle by boycotting the Korean press.
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Some of the prattle can feel like treading water, a delaying tactic until the inevitable confrontation scene.
Verb
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But John Healey stepped down as defense secretary this month after complaining that Starmer was not moving fast enough to meet the target.
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Still, some users are complaining online.
Adjective
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Dickerson was the first physician to treat Mike Studeny, who was diagnosed with a non-bleeding stroke.
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In tests using mice, after surgical damage to the liver, AGCL was able to perform significantly better than other current anti-bleeding agents, with normal liver function returning just two weeks after its application.
Noun
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At low speeds through the town of Imola and villages beyond it, the most prominent sound is the whining of the rear differential.
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That broader perspective may explain why Hamlin’s criticisms rarely sound like post-race whining.
Noun
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The film almost completely drops any and all scientific babble from the book in favor of character development, action sequences, and emotional gut punches.
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Read a book and sip tea in front of the central fireplace, swim between the indoor and outdoor sections of the glimmering pool, and soak your aching quads in the hot tubs under the evergreens and aspens while listening to the peaceful babble of Gore Creek.
Verb
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The couple’s relationship began with a friendship bracelet and a podcast shout-out in July 2023, and by September Swift was screaming profanities in support of her new favorite football player.
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As Rayan began screaming, al-Ajeen, whose family has long farmed in the area, picked up his son and began walking again.
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“Yammering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yammering. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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