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Verb
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Lots of fussy bow-tie types yammering about Renoir.—
Peter Bogdanovich,
IndieWire,
13 May 2026 -
There’s also an inanimate object that directly affects Paul’s future so profoundly that this small prop might as well be a lurking, yammering figure in the diner.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
21 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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An assortment of fake-looking whiny babies in flashy hippie outfits accompany a Lennon rant about the counterculture’s post-’60s disillusionment.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
16 May 2026
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Sarah is an excessively whiny character whose dishonesty is off-putting.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The text messages in 2024 between Johnson and Duffey revealed that the two men used suggestive language while discussing women colleagues.—
Hema Sivanandam,
Mercury News,
29 May 2026
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Orange County leadership has already begun discussing how to respond to the rise in injuries, and I am encouraged by their willingness to engage this issue with seriousness and care.—
Myron Rolle,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 May 2026
Adjective
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The Dog Pound’s inhabitants will do more yelping than woofing.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Long a refrain of strident progressives and good-government reformers, accusations that political rivals are self-dealing or bought by special interests have become a mainstay of Democratic primaries.—
Matt Brown,
Fortune,
25 May 2026
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Perhaps most notably, Rabb was a strident critic of establishment politics, including his own party's.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 May 2026
Adjective
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Cancers of the head and neck include malignancies affecting the mouth and throat (called the oral cavity and pharynx), the voice box (larynx), the sinuses and nasal cavities, and the salivary glands.—
Mikkael Sekeres,
Washington Post,
18 May 2026
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However, newer hypotheses suggest, as noted in the 2025 review, that the reflex may also serve to redistribute mucus across the nasal cavity; it’s believed that this enhances the trapping and dilution of harmful particles, rather than just blasting them outward.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
Adjective
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One spring day in Paris many years ago, my wife, Diana, a most penetrating photographer, capable of seeing like no one else, decided, as an experiment, to walk across the city blindfolded.—
Hisham Matar,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Aug. 2024
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Since the war began in Gaza, more than six months ago, the Israeli magazine +972 has published some of the most penetrating reporting on the Israel Defense Forces’ conduct.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2024
Adjective
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Donald, Mark, Willie, Billy, and Tony — practically everyone in Hollis within shouting distance of 203rd Street was laughing at me at earsplitting volume.—
Stephen A. Smith,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2023
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The Wall, though, will be delightfully old school in a cap tip to the court-hugging, earsplitting, rowdy venues of college basketball’s glory days.—
Bryce MillerColumnist,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Jan. 2023
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“Yapping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yapping. Accessed 31 May. 2026.
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