yapped (at)

past tense of yap (at)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for yapped (at)
Verb
  • During his last visit to Tehran in 2012, Aryan Diba enjoyed the sweeping hospitality of the city, but was annoyed when he and a group of friends were disrupted by local authorities while talking to a group of women at a local fast food joint.
    Colin Wrenn, Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The Australian miner with closest ties to China, Forrest was annoyed by CMRG’s attack, calling on the commodity buying cartel to ‘negotiate fairly’.
    Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The investigation also probed Arday's past claims about being threatened and harassed on campus following his Cambridge appointment, which reportedly yielded some inconsistencies.
    Mason Leib, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Union activists routinely harassed migrants, reported them to immigration authorities and even organized their own patrols along the border, some of which resulted in violence against immigrants.
    Eladio Bobadilla, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • In recent years, Georgia’s State Election Board has been plagued by infighting, feuds, insults, partisan maneuvering and out-and-out shouting matches.
    AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • That report, released by the county last month, details a department doing many things right but also plagued by a poor facility in Bonita and other practices that don’t align with industry standards.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Baldur is more circumspect, irked at having temporarily lost his boat in the mishap, and unsettled by Helge’s teasing manner, which could be interpreted as either adversarial or flirtatious.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 July 2026
  • The company behind the disk space analyzer TreeSize has irked some users by no longer offering support or updates for perpetual licenses beyond their maintenance period unless customers subscribe.
    Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 21 July 2026
Verb
  • In the meantime, the deadly encounter has reignited a contentious debate about body cameras, one that has long vexed local officials and pitted some of the city’s progressive groups against each other.
    ABC News, ABC News, 24 July 2026
  • Regime Change, the recent runaway bestseller by Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, has vexed the president further.
    David Folkenflik, NPR, 23 July 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • The group alleged that as well as hacking their phones, journalists from the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday tapped landlines and bugged houses and cars.
    K.J. Yossman, Variety, 7 July 2026
Verb
  • One night, Timothy alleges, Melanie badgered her to get it on, but Timothy successfully held out.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 13 July 2026
  • As aldermen badgered the buyer, seller and Johnson’s top lawyers during the no-vote hearing, some zeroed in on the mayor, accusing his team of being unnecessarily secretive.
    Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
Verb
  • The effect that Republicans’ Wuhan investigations and right-leaning media had on Fauci’s public image continuously bothered him, according to the writings.
    Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 31 July 2026
  • Johnson took the job partly out of patriotism; he was bothered that so few people knew the smartphone was a Canadian invention.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 July 2026
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“Yapped (at).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yapped%20%28at%29. Accessed 7 Aug. 2026.

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