yapped (at)

past tense of yap (at)

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Verb
  • One guy in cargo shorts and a battered Ramones T-shirt kept casting dirty looks at the sky, clearly annoyed at the thumping of the TV news helicopters — there were at least three overhead at all times — drowning out his commentary.
    Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • What annoyed me the most, though, was the way the meditation teachers talked, which tended toward New Age–isms in passive voice.
    Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Instead, Keefe was soon pulled over by Milton police who said the employee had called 911 to report that he was being followed and harassed.
    Irene Wright, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The haters have hacked the store’s website, harassed its hosts, spread rumors about its owner, and threatened to show up in force in front of its physical store.
    Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Instead, they were plagued by injuries, dropped seven of their final nine games and lost the division tiebreaker to the Carolina Panthers.
    Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • But the violence that plagued Muslims and mosques in the days and years after 9/11 stood in stark contrast to those sentiments.
    BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Some of the details have irked school officials because the act caps conference membership at 19 teams and requires schools moving between conferences to spend five years as an independent.
    Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026
  • But Trinity's focus on its bottom line also irked many Republicans, including Mantello, who was the City Council president at the time.
    Noam Levey, NPR, 1 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Many economists believe that final round of stimulus relief overheated the economy and fed inflation, which has vexed the American public for the past five years.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
  • For decades scientists and researchers have been vexed by a sound emanating from cats.
    Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The indictment revealed that prosecutors had bugged the Aisenbergs' home for three months after Sabrina's disappearance.
    Curran Rastogi, ABC News, 10 Aug. 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
Verb
  • Stewart isn’t the only Twilight star still being badgered about the vampire franchise.
    Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Aug. 2026
  • One night, Timothy alleges, Melanie badgered her to get it on, but Timothy successfully held out.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 13 July 2026
Verb
  • The roundtable of women appear hot and bothered that de Lesseps interrupted Patton’s touching tribute to her mom.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Something about the story bothered de Aguiar Alves at the time.
    Matt von Hippel, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2026
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“Yapped (at).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yapped%20%28at%29. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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