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But it also eases their yoke over the long haul.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

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

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

From Washington Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

The outer edge, skimming the yoke and slithering over the shoulders, determines where things stand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

The skirt is ankle-length, full, gathered to a flat yoke that extends over the breasts, the sleeves are full.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

The reversal highlighted both the fragility of the eight-way coalition, which yokes together politicians who would normally be bitter ideological opponents, and Raam’s pivotal but imperiled position.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2022

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

From Fox News ● Mar. 18, 2021

They steadied the buckets with their hands, but the weight hung from the yokes on their shoulders.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

If Piker could become yoked, then anything was possible.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2025

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

The metaverse project wouldn’t suffer from being yoked to a controversial advertising business, and it would be fully funded for a decade.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 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

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

Meanwhile, more and more of us are yoking ourselves to increasingly narrow ideological and oratorical identities.

From New York Times ● May 19, 2018

I watch this process of yoking the bullocks with much curiosity.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea