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yapping

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verb

present participle of yap

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for yapping
Adjective
  • When Lost writers decided to bring two of the also-crasheds to the forefront, no one could have predicted how grating the pair's whiny inanity would become.
    Marc Snetiker, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Oct. 2025
  • That’s upset some fans, especially the kind of whiny babies who never like anything.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 25 July 2025
Verb
  • Western officials, while refraining from discussing operational details, have stressed their commitment to defending critical undersea infrastructure and monitoring sites with strategic vulnerabilities.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Thursday's season 7 debut included a teaser looking ahead toward future episodes, with a portion near the end including a shot of the 45-year-old All's Fair star getting an MRI before discussing an update on her health.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Carney won an election in April with a strident message for Canadians, warning that theirrelationship with America would change dramatically in the coming years.
    Paula Newton, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • For days, the National Weather Service had been issuing increasingly strident warnings.
    Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • Blow your nose to clear your nasal passages.
    Megan Nunn, Verywell Health, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Expect a meticulous review of nasal aesthetics and breathing.
    Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 29 Oct. 2025.

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