yoke
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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
On another page an elderly farmer in the Fujian Province of China struggles under a shoulder yoke of watering cans.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2024
“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 lamassus growled and tugged and twisted under the yoke.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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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
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If Piker could become yoked, then anything was possible.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 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
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
They have played for years in Anaheim, in Orange County, yet they’re historically and legally yoked to L.A. in a freeway-friction cousinship to which L.A. is pretty much indifferent but one that grieves Orange County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
The horses had been bridled and yoked to the car.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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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
But there’s a lot of this election cycle left to go, and voluntarily yoking themselves to something a lot of people would really hate is a bold choice.
From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2024
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
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
But when Aurora, daughter of the dawn, Look’d rosy from the East, yoking the steeds, They in their sumptuous chariot sat again.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
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