yoke

Someone has to yoke the memory of Iran’s pre-1979 past to a live possibility of a better future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

The event involves a deadlift ladder - four deadlift bars in a row – a 136kg shield carry, a 280kg yoke carried across the back, and reps with a 90kg wooden log.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2025

On another page an elderly farmer in the Fujian Province of China struggles under a shoulder yoke of watering cans.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2024

“Megalopolis” isn’t well-served by synopses that call it a “city poem” or yoke its wild ambitions to ancient Rome’s power struggles or municipal intrigue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2024

Heavy as a yoke, responsibility settled over Ranofer’s mind.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

The trial yokes together three different cases, meaning Jones could rule for the challengers in some instances and not others.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2023

And although archaeologists have found Yamnaya wagons, oxen, and yokes, riding equipment—such as bridles or saddles—is missing entirely.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 2, 2023

No yokes about it – this girl’s a riot.

From Fox News ● Mar. 18, 2021

The project, titled "Operation Warp Speed," yokes Kushner together with senior White House adviser Peter Navarro, who first floated the idea to the administration in February, the Daily Beast reports.

From Salon ● May 8, 2020

Elsewhere, there were men working in the fields, and women carrying water in yokes across their shoulders.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

The hoped-for showdown between summer juggernauts “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” improbably yoked by a meme that launched a box office bonanza and eventually outlived its cleverness, didn’t quite materialize on nominations day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

For too long, cottage cheese was unfairly yoked to the diet industrial complex or discarded as an old-school, if virtuous, deli or diner side.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2023

What, exactly, is the yoked candidate trying to tell us?

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2023

Instead of being yoked to outfit sets, “you had the ability to mix and match a skirt with a more formal top,” says fashion historian Sara Idacavage, an instructor at the University of Georgia.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2023

The ox yoked to it looked fed up and tired, as if it were sick of life itself.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

That’s fair, even if yoking this project to an intended slur feels limiting.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2022

That idea ran counter to blocos’ freewheeling nature, plus some organizers expressed worry it was a further attempt to “privatize” Carnival by yoking them with corporate sponsorship.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 20, 2022

Part of the reason for yoking the climate bills to transportation was to force action on a much-needed transportation package.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2021

Without yoking herself to some cumbersome Greek chorus, Watts has invented a communal voice that’s infinitely flexible, capable of surveying the whole depressed town or lingering tenderly in a grieving mother’s mind.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2017

The mode of yoking the beasts was exceedingly simple.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines