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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

“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

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

From Washington Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

And when they were even babies he would tell them of the yoke they must thrust from their shoulders—the yoke of submission and slothfulness.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

Yet the films are still yoked together under Kwedar’s helpful catchphrase — human connection in impossible places — as well as their tendency to bring lesser-known character actors into the spotlight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025

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

On reaching the field selected, the priest pours the grain into the cloth of the Kurumba, and, yoking the animals to the plough, makes three furrows in the soil.

From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Thurston, Edgar