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They also form a partnership and set out to make their fortune and save the planet with a tidal-energy company that they claim will “power our civilization by slinging a yoke around the moon.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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

That was exactly what the founders sought to avoid, having thrown off the yoke of an all-powerful monarch.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2024

The “Texas is back!” meme has hung like a yoke on the Bevo steer mascot since 2016.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

This was to yoke two bulls he had, whose feet were of bronze and whose breath was flaming fire, and with them to plow a field.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

Chacko lifted the fried eggs onto the toast, broke the brilliant, wobbling yokes and spread them over the strawberry jam with the back of his teaspoon.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

“So do husbands, I suspect. By then it is too late, for they are yoked to each other like oxen for the long haul.”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Arizona’s First District, yoking relatively liberal Scottsdale to conservative Paradise Valley and other communities in northeast Phoenix, includes most of the region that Representative David Schweikert represented before maps were redrawn.

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2022

They have, Keegin says, “by and large subordinated their work as professional intellectuals and historians to the news cycle, yoking their reputations to the delirious churn of outrage media.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 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

Harriet was ten, I was not quite nine, and Lars was only twelve, hence we spent long hours in yoking and unyoking our unruly span.

From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland