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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.
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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.
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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).
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Colton Pouncy,
The Athletic,
12 July 2024
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Noun
There was a riot of noise, the yaps and yelps of a hound pack fighting an animal on the ground.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Colton Pouncy,
The Athletic,
12 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yap
Noun
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Cellphone video shows a staff member with a bloodied mouth climbing into the back of an ambulance.
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Gleaning from context clues, French fries is season 8’s code for hand and/or mouth stuff.
Verb
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Lots of fussy bow-tie types yammering about Renoir.
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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.
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.
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But yakking about redrawing California’s congressional maps is easy.
Verb
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In discussing the matter, Hahn also called for the county to look into establishing an emergency stockpile of air purifiers and other critical supplies to better prepare for future disasters.
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Without discussing too much in detail, councilmembers raised several potential alternatives during the meeting, including parking garage subsidies, downtown employee waivers and a comprehensive citywide review of parking programs.
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.
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Ostensibly, further studies are encouraged to expatiate this understanding.
Verb
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GiGi had been on the phone for the past hour, the receiver tucked between her head and her left shoulder, a Prince album playing loudly so Syl couldn’t hear her gossiping.
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This is often easier said than done – no one wants to be gossiped about.
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“Yap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yap. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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