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Recent Examples of yap
Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
But Playtime: Fulfillment might as well be a commercial, as a bicycle courier, played by Kevin Hart’s daughter Heaven, zips past PlayStation characters like Kratos and Sackboy while her famous dad yaps in her ear.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
Abigail is also an expert in Gilmore Girls lore and yaps about romance novels on a podcast in her spare time.
—Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 10 Oct. 2024
And his stupid off field noise was a distraction and just overall dumb (why yap at Deebo shut up and play).
—Colton Pouncy, The Athletic, 12 July 2024
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Noun
There was a riot of noise, the yaps and yelps of a hound pack fighting an animal on the ground.
—Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
But Playtime: Fulfillment might as well be a commercial, as a bicycle courier, played by Kevin Hart’s daughter Heaven, zips past PlayStation characters like Kratos and Sackboy while her famous dad yaps in her ear.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
Abigail is also an expert in Gilmore Girls lore and yaps about romance novels on a podcast in her spare time.
—Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 10 Oct. 2024
And his stupid off field noise was a distraction and just overall dumb (why yap at Deebo shut up and play).
—Colton Pouncy, The Athletic, 12 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yap
Noun
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The finish is warming and tickles the back of the mouth with a lingering thread of saffron spice.—
Brad Japhe,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
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According to the aquarium, the whale had fishing rope caught in its mouth and trailing behind its body.—
Neal Riley,
CBS News,
14 June 2026
Verb
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Lots of fussy bow-tie types yammering about Renoir.—
Peter Bogdanovich,
IndieWire,
13 May 2026
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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
Verb
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From mopane worms in Zimbabwe to yak butter tea in Tibet, people are willing to try almost anything these days.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
20 Aug. 2025
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But yakking about redrawing California’s congressional maps is easy.—
George Skelton,
Mercury News,
5 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The pair visited Ethiopia in 2019 and met with Sahle-Work Zewde, the first woman president of Ethiopia to discuss ways to help girls continue their schooling.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
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The supervisors had discussed in March whether the money could be used to address pressing demands across the county, such as the multimillion-dollar liability from the Airport fire in 2024.—
Claire Wang,
Oc Register,
10 June 2026
Verb
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There was no debate on education, for instance, the subject on which Cash had been most keen to expatiate; indeed, there were no debates at all.—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
25 July 2024
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Ostensibly, further studies are encouraged to expatiate this understanding.—
Amber Smith,
Discover Magazine,
7 Jan. 2024
Verb
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On Friday night, the United Talent Agency, along with Vulture, held their yearly elegant soiree, bringing in people from across the scene, with actors, producers, and agents gabbing and gossiping about the past year in Broadway and beyond.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
7 June 2026
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Reading these conversations feels like attending a party at which each new guest talks over the one before, disputing and undermining, gossiping and bringing into doubt the fundamental purpose of their coming together.—
Joe Dunthorne,
The New York Review of Books,
6 June 2026
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“Yap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yap. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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