as in complaining
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
H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yammering
Verb
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DeWanna Bonner earned a technical foul with six minutes remaining for complaining after a no-call on a second-chance attempt.—
Ben Pickman,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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Not that Siegler is complaining.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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But his crying scene in Ford v Ferrari is one for the ages.—
Michael Granberry,
Dallas News,
17 Jan. 2020
Noun
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And since then, his crying and whining have increased.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Aug. 2025
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As seen and heard this week at the SEC spring meetings, the whining over that has not ceased.—
Joe Rexrode,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
Noun
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Trump prattles on about the economy while the actors freeze behind him in their ancient Galilee garb.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.—
Joshua Cohen,
The New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2024
Verb
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Obviously, there is a bird on the hood, the screaming chicken.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
15 Oct. 2025
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Pointed gestures toward the lingering tension between Japan and Korea — and between those two countries and the rest of the planet — are drowned out by tiresome bickering and exaggerated gags, like a meaningful conversation swallowed into the sound of an airplane engine screaming overhead.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Aaron Chown—Press Association via AP Images People remove a new artwork by Banksy, depicting a howling wolf painted on a satellite dish that was placed on a shop roof in Peckham, south London.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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Get ready for a wild ride in Kansas City as a weather system will send temperatures plummeting and usher in howling winds, rain and maybe some light snow on Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
19 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Last year, Silverio received a call through his organization’s 24/7 hotline from a weeping mother who had gone to a fire station to surrender her baby and found the station empty.—
Alana Semuels,
Time,
8 Oct. 2025
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As church members left the multiplex theater reunification site, some rushed to family and friends waiting outside, hugging and weeping.—
Kristen Jordan Shamus,
Freep.com,
28 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Mesopotamian corpses, stirred by the babble of trade, wander the halls wrapped in shrouds of extravagant malice.—
David Velasco,
Harpers Magazine,
18 Dec. 2023
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“Yammering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yammering. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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