Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of unyoke Small, snug, and unyoked from laptop or phone, AirPods are easy to wear for hours at a time, without a second thought. Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 5 June 2019 Men unyoked from their families, reeling from broken bonds, are the norm: some contrite and faithfully sending child support checks, others blowing all their money on meth, pickups and good times. Longreads, 23 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unyoke
Verb
  • Senate Republicans are trying to divide Democrats on Thursday with a vote that would pay government workers deemed essential who are working without pay during the shutdown.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In the trailer, Whitney drops the bomb that she is set to start her own MomTok, as the group continues to be divided.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The game at Paycom Center was a tight affair, with very little to separate the two teams.
    Ben Morse, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But during their kiss, police swooped in to clear the crowd and wound up separating McSweeney from her kissing partner.
    Diane J. Cho, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Failing to install the device, or disconnecting or tampering with it, could result in a $600 fine or six months in jail.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • If time permits, lock your home upon departure and disconnect utilities and appliances.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Atlanta scored first on a 38-yard field goal from Parker Romo, but that came after Huff and Sam Okuayinonu split a third-down sack to minimize a 19-play, 10 ½-minute drive.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Bigger than Alaska and Texas combined, West Antarctica is split from the eastern half of the continent by the Transantarctic Mountains, whose peaks are buried to their chins in ice.
    Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The tension first reached a breaking point years earlier when her sister severed ties with their dad’s extended family.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • His instinct, in other words, was to treat science as severed from politics.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The protest also happened on day 18 of the government shutdown, after Republicans and Democrats failed to resolve a budget dispute for the 2026 fiscal year.
    Carolyn Burt, Oc Register, 19 Oct. 2025
  • This doesn’t resolve that Georgia is better off with Stockton than the alternatives.
    Seth Emerson, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Unyoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unyoke. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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