yoke

It featured a female panther resting its paws on a severed head, and was probably attached to the body of a carriage or wagon or to the yoke, which hitched draught animals to the vehicle.

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026

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 guard video, shot over the pilot’s left shoulder, shows him aggressively working the yoke to keep the enormous plane airborne and on target to release a drenching stream of fire retardant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 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

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

But what’s thrilling about Roxander is technique yoked to eagerness.

From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2023

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

But in the presence of their subjects, King Hamlet and Queen Gertrude were yoked to each other in rule and in love, bestowing all their pride on their son.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

AI is sucking in capital, workers, equipment and raw materials from around the world, yoking the fortunes of major economies to a technology that is becoming more enmeshed in workplaces and daily life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

Just as Tocqueville predicted, aristocrats like the Roosevelts and Stimsons managed to transfer their allegiance from class to country, successfully yoking their personal ambition to larger public causes.

From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2018

There the boys sat, hugely enjoying the situation, while the others were loading the wagon and yoking the oxen on the other side.

From The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas by W. A. (William Allen) Rogers