YAP (AT) Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

yap (at)

verb

Definition of yap (at)

as in to carp (at)

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The Biden administration also had a commitment to AI safety that annoyed AI companies.

— Nina Verdelli, Vanity Fair, 24 Oct. 2026
Alan Cumming, please tell me if you were actually annoyed with Victor in that moment.

— Alice Burton, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of annoy

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Minnesota lawmakers with broad bipartisan support this year approved a new watchdog agency tasked with fighting fraud that's plagued social services programs in the state for years.

— Caroline Cummings, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
Previous administrations have been plagued by poor accountability on large-ticket projects, a problem the president’s critics say remains the case under Tinubu.

— Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of plague

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Leaders at a high school in Colorado accused of racially harassing students at sports games sent an e-mail to families on Monday about the investigation.

— Christa Swanson, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
Trouble at ICE field office For months, protesters outside the Moss building, which houses immigration court and ICE offices, have accused Sacramento police of assisting federal agents and harassing demonstrators.

— Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of harass

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Pushing the ball in transition, George made contact with Detroit guard Duncan Robinson before dramatically collapsing to the floor in an Oscar-worthy attempt to bait a whistle.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
In Pakistan, Choudhary told me, the workforce of the author-baiting scams is largely made up of high-school and university graduates.

— Snigdha Poonam, The Dial, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of bait

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The Department of Justice’s prosecution of a Saudi national for allegedly bugging an OpenAI conference room is causing anxiety among OpenAI employees, many of whom are foreign nationals.

— Benjamin Guggenheim, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
On Monday, a court granted the US government’s request to deny release of a former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging a top-secret conference room to steal the frontier lab’s secrets.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of bug

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Baltzor and her husband Keith, had just finished riding a bunch of about 150 hundred head of their cattle down Highway 205 on horseback from another pasture.

— Anna King, NPR, 25 Oct. 2026
JenChan’s floor manager, Maxx Reginello, couldn’t work for a few weeks last year after he was hit while riding his bike home after a double shift on Easter.

— Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

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Buckley plays Matt, a Chicago firefighter and Darlene’s grandson, who has been badgering the paper to write about Darlene attending her 500th Bears game.

— Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026
But instead of taking the win and directing the alliance’s attention back toward Russia’s hybrid warfare, the administration continued to badger allies to spend more and faster.

— Julianne Smith, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of badger

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The former electronic music has roots in disco, dub reggae, hip-hop—traditions in which the DJ, in search of records fresher and wilder than those in rival crates, is a central figure, urging producers to new heights of ingenuity.

— Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 31 Oct. 2026
Calder wrote to the State Department and successfully urged them to let in artists from Europe, such as Fernand Léger and André Masson.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 30 Oct. 2026

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