yoked

Example Sentences

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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 horses had been bridled and yoked to the car.

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