yanked; yanking; yanks
: to pull on something with a quick vigorous movement
1
: to pull or extract with a quick vigorous movement
2
: to remove in or as if in an abrupt manner
yanked the story from the evening edition
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Examples of yank in a Sentence
Verb
He yanked the door shut.
She yanked on the dog's leash.
Noun (1)
had to give the shoe a good yank to get it off
Recent Examples on the Web
Alexander Tin, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2024
DeSantis succeeded in yanking $2 billion in assets under management from BlackRock, but as of last January, BlackRock still manages $13 billion for the state.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
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Verb
Meanwhile, the eye drops outbreak in humans also prompted a crackdown by the Food and Drug Administration across the industry, leading to millions more bottles of over-the-counter brands yanked from shelves and banned from import.
—Alexander Tin, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2024
DeSantis succeeded in yanking $2 billion in assets under management from BlackRock, but as of last January, BlackRock still manages $13 billion for the state.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
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“Yank.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yank. Accessed 5 May. 2024.
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