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- had to give the shoe a good yank to get it off
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- she stupidly yanked the wheel while I was driving
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- yanked out a tooth with a pair of pliers
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- corkscrew,
- extract,
- prize,
- pry,
- pull,
- root (out),
- tear (out),
- uproot,
- wrest,
- wring
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- grab the other one, and let's see if we can't yank these two grocery carriages apart
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“Yank.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yank. Accessed 20 May. 2022.
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The first known use of yank was in 1778
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