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

The Biden administration also had a commitment to AI safety that annoyed AI companies.

— Nina Verdelli, Vanity Fair, 24 Oct. 2026
Alan Cumming, please tell me if you were actually annoyed with Victor in that moment.

— Alice Burton, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of annoy

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Deloitte-run systems have been plagued by errors that can result in eligible people losing their health coverage, previous KFF Health News investigations have shown.

— Samantha Liss, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
The president used an antisemitic slur to defend Marshall’s history of suing patients for medical debt, a controversy that has plagued the incumbent senator in recent weeks.

— Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of plague

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Leaders at a high school in Colorado accused of racially harassing students at sports games sent an e-mail to families on Monday about the investigation.

— Christa Swanson, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
Trouble at ICE field office For months, protesters outside the Moss building, which houses immigration court and ICE offices, have accused Sacramento police of assisting federal agents and harassing demonstrators.

— Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of harass

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Pushing the ball in transition, George made contact with Detroit guard Duncan Robinson before dramatically collapsing to the floor in an Oscar-worthy attempt to bait a whistle.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
In Pakistan, Choudhary told me, the workforce of the author-baiting scams is largely made up of high-school and university graduates.

— Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of bait

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On Monday, a court granted the US government’s request to deny release of a former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging a top-secret conference room to steal the frontier lab’s secrets.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026
And as the team moved into the couple’s guest house on their San Diego rental property, the filmmakers feared that the home was bugged and ordered a device to try to de-bug it, without success.

— Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of bug

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Baltzor and her husband Keith, had just finished riding a bunch of about 150 hundred head of their cattle down Highway 205 on horseback from another pasture.

— Anna King, NPR, 25 Oct. 2026
JenChan’s floor manager, Maxx Reginello, couldn’t work for a few weeks last year after he was hit while riding his bike home after a double shift on Easter.

— Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of ride

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Buckley plays Matt, a Chicago firefighter and Darlene’s grandson, who has been badgering the paper to write about Darlene attending her 500th Bears game.

— Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026
But instead of taking the win and directing the alliance’s attention back toward Russia’s hybrid warfare, the administration continued to badger allies to spend more and faster.

— Julianne Smith, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of badger

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Two strategists close to Acton’s campaign, granted anonymity to discuss its internalassessment, urged caution about the more optimistic assessment of where the contest now stands.

— Teo Armus, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
Trump has also told Kyiv to stop attacking Russian refineries and urged Ukrainians to replace Zelenskyy.

— Reuters, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of urge

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