yap (at)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yap (at)
Verb
  • He was annoyed when people advocated that.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Some people may be annoyed with thousands of fake videos of themselves flooding the internet, but Paul seems to be amused by it.
    Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The rest of the cast comes with big question marks after injuries and inconsistency plagued this group last season.
    Harman Dayal, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Cobweb Eight-year-old Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant tap, tap from inside his bedroom wall — a tapping that his parents insist is all in his imagination.
    Caitlin White, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Bava begins the proceedings with a tale of a telephone creep harassing a woman and closes with ghostly revenge.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
  • At full strength, the Seahawks can harass passers at a high level.
    Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Falcons will be particularly careful about the way Allen uses his pre-snap cadence to force penalties and try to bait defenses into revealing clues about their coverage plans, Elliss said.
    Josh Kendall, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Amazon is really baiting us to breakup with our iPads by offering 50% off the newest generation of their Fire tablet.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Daily Stride Comfort No-show Socks There is nothing that bugs me more than no-show socks that curl up underneath your foot minutes into wearing them.
    Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
  • At the end of the 19th century, Phylloxera bugs infected vineyards across Europe but a solution was found, and viticulture adapted and continued.
    Miguel A. Torres, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Lions, who enter this game riding a four-game winning streak, rank among the most balanced teams in the league.
    Mike Jones, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Famously, of course, Bianca Jagger rode a white horse there at her birthday party.
    Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Jason Bateman shines in the scene with the Diamond District connect, fast-talking and badgering this guy within an inch of his life until Mancuso and Babbitt show up to take him out.
    Andy Andersen, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Impatient investors have been badgering the company for several years to cash in some of its more valuable assets.
    Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Taylor claimed Martz urged her to join them in the cockpit to get the best view.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Ellison's office's lack of substantive response to the ultimatum comes despite the fact that hundreds of Minnesota school board members penned an open letter urging the state to comply with Trump and change its policies to keep males out of girls sports.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
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“Yap (at).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yap%20%28at%29. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.

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