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Recent Examples of yap
Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
But Playtime: Fulfillment might as well be a commercial, as a bicycle courier, played by Kevin Hart’s daughter Heaven, zips past PlayStation characters like Kratos and Sackboy while her famous dad yaps in her ear.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
Abigail is also an expert in Gilmore Girls lore and yaps about romance novels on a podcast in her spare time.
—Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 10 Oct. 2024
And his stupid off field noise was a distraction and just overall dumb (why yap at Deebo shut up and play).
—Colton Pouncy, The Athletic, 12 July 2024
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Verb
There was a riot of noise, the yaps and yelps of a hound pack fighting an animal on the ground.
—Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
But Playtime: Fulfillment might as well be a commercial, as a bicycle courier, played by Kevin Hart’s daughter Heaven, zips past PlayStation characters like Kratos and Sackboy while her famous dad yaps in her ear.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
Abigail is also an expert in Gilmore Girls lore and yaps about romance novels on a podcast in her spare time.
—Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 10 Oct. 2024
And his stupid off field noise was a distraction and just overall dumb (why yap at Deebo shut up and play).
—Colton Pouncy, The Athletic, 12 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yap
Noun
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Sanders actually pantomimed his answers, moving his mouth with no words coming out and smiling throughout.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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Bolding responds as his daughter takes a step back and puts a hand over her mouth.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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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
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Our anti-aircraft guns are yammering, and every so often a bomb strikes so close as to rock this ship.—
Jordan Runtagh,
People.com,
26 May 2025
Verb
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From mopane worms in Zimbabwe to yak butter tea in Tibet, people are willing to try almost anything these days.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
20 Aug. 2025
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But yakking about redrawing California’s congressional maps is easy.—
George Skelton,
Mercury News,
5 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Back in Europe, regional leaders will converge in Copenhagen on Wednesday to discuss measures to bolster the continent’s security, following a recent spate of airspace incursions in countries including Denmark, Poland, Romania and Estonia.—
Tasmin Lockwood,Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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Women who are at higher risk with a family history of breast cancer or other risk factors should discuss timing of screening with their health care provider.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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There was no debate on education, for instance, the subject on which Cash had been most keen to expatiate; indeed, there were no debates at all.—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
25 July 2024
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Ostensibly, further studies are encouraged to expatiate this understanding.—
Amber Smith,
Discover Magazine,
7 Jan. 2024
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“Yap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yap. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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