YAP (AT) Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

yap (at)

verb

Definition of yap (at)

as in to carp (at)

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Verb

Tiesi, appearing to be annoyed, received a video call from him seconds later.

— Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026
Andreu Martínez of Spain humorously said in July 2024 that the use of squirt guns was to annoy the tourists a bit.

— Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2026

Definition of annoy

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The following season, Toney appeared in a career-high 13 games, but he was plagued by drops and a late-season injury.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
The project to give the pool a facelift to celebrate the United States’ 250th birthday began in April, but has been beset by difficulties after it became plagued by an algae bloom and the pool’s new blue lining began to peel.

— Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2026

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Although China’s maritime militia fleet regularly harasses other countries’ small and vulnerable fishing boats, the container ships and bulk carriers responsible for Taiwan’s commerce dwarf any Chinese militia vessel.

— Eugene Gholz, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2026
The order would limit Miller’s ability to contact her attorneys, with Moreno saying in the filing that her ex-husband harassed, grabbed and insulted them.

— Adam England, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of harass

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Below, in the second half of the same game, the two holding midfielders (yellow) and full-backs (white) both stay deep, baiting the press.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 30 July 2026
Better Than a Scammer Laurent Giovannoni is a principal software engineer at Filigran, a threat intelligence platform, and will present code for ScamBuster, a scam-baiting program designed to waste scammers’ time and energy.

— Kim Key, PC Magazine, 30 July 2026

Definition of bait

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Lift sheets, curtains and cushions to check for bed bugs or signs of bed bugs before settling in.

— Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2026
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, a law-enforcement agency known as NABU, had bugged Mindich’s apartment in Kyiv, and detectives picked up his conversations about Fire Point.

— Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026

Definition of bug

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Nine said league members received money they were owed only after badgering him directly, including threatening to expose him publicly or report him to his employer, and even then, some received only partial winnings.

— Alex Andrejev, New York Times, 17 July 2026
One night, Timothy alleges, Melanie badgered her to get it on, but Timothy successfully held out.

— Matt Thompson, SPIN, 13 July 2026

Definition of badger

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In June, the New Jersey attorney general filed a lawsuit against the site’s operator, The GEO Group, urging a court to close the facility until the state could inspect it over longstanding allegations of inhumane conditions.

— Alex Stambaugh, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
On Semafor’s Mixed Signals podcast in July, former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy reflected on whether the Biden administration took the right approach to public health communication by urging the tech platforms to regulate health misinformation.

— Max Tani, semafor.com, 3 Aug. 2026

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