as in slavery
the state of being an enslaved person
a people able at last to throw off the yoke and to embrace freedom
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as in to connect
to put or bring together so as to form a new and longer whole
yoked several ideas together to come up with a new theory
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Recent Examples of yoke
Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
Other Foods That Are Rich in Vitamin D Vitamin D is found naturally in few foods, including fish (like those above), beef liver, egg yoke, and cheese.
—Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 28 Nov. 2025
Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
Outdoor gear may appear rugged and practical, but the industry that produces and markets it is yoked to traditional fashion cycles.
—Corey Buhay, Outside, 15 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Every family may hand down its share of struggles and traumas, but Dabis’s movie suggests that Palestinians living under the yoke of occupation must deal with an especially cruel and binding inheritance.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2026
Other Foods That Are Rich in Vitamin D Vitamin D is found naturally in few foods, including fish (like those above), beef liver, egg yoke, and cheese.
—Kelly Burch, Verywell Health, 28 Nov. 2025
Verb
But if the joke and the ignorance are equally yoked, people will laugh.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
Outdoor gear may appear rugged and practical, but the industry that produces and markets it is yoked to traditional fashion cycles.
—Corey Buhay, Outside, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yoke
Noun
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Western civilization has created incredible innovation and achievements, while sadly slavery and colonialism will always be a part of history.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Mar. 2026
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Then, drive 20 minutes down the road to the Cape Coast Castle Museum, which acknowledges the grim atrocities and consequences of slavery.—
Melanie van Zyl,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Located between Iran’s southern coast and a peninsula shared by Oman and the Emirates, the strait is a tiny section of sea connecting the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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January 20 – February 18 New ideas connect friends in surprisingly useful ways.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Months later, Gershon was hanging from the ceiling, dressed in bondage gear, reflecting upon her early acting goals to perform Chekhov, portray Medea and stun audiences into silence.—
Cat Woods,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Mar. 2026
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Shibari is Japanese rope bondage.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Feb. 2026
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Instead, he’s been working part time at the front desk of a local tennis center and stringing rackets on the side, trying somehow to support his family of five on $15 an hour without health insurance.—
R.j. Rico,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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Instead, he's been working part-time at the front desk of a local tennis center and stringing rackets on the side, trying somehow to support his family of five on $15 an hour without health insurance.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2026
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As Leon, however, it's recommended to play in the third person, which couples nicely with the action-thriller vibe of that storyline.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Feb. 2026
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With five of the eight Bridgerton siblings married and coupled up in the TV series, fans are looking at who will marry the three remaining single Bridgertons, namely the family’s youngest child, Hyacinth.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
26 Feb. 2026
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Eyal noted that Palo Alto continues to see strong demand for security vendors with a unified platform ecosystem, which integrates multiple security functions, particularly network security, SASE (secure access service edge), endpoint and SIEM (security information and event management).—
TipRanks.com Staff,
CNBC,
8 Mar. 2026
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Many Gulf desalination plants are physically integrated with power stations as co‑generation facilities, meaning attacks on electrical infrastructure could also hinder water production.—
Annika Hammerschlag,
Fortune,
8 Mar. 2026
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For example, the size of Little Foot’s eye sockets may have been due to changes in visual acuity or the environment — and linked with an extended visual area in her brain, something identified during previous research by Beaudet and her colleagues.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
7 Mar. 2026
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Last year, the financial center was forced to suspend companies linked to Iranian oil trader Hossein Shamkhani after a Bloomberg story exposed the network.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
6 Mar. 2026
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On a few possessions, those smaller defenders also backed up under Jokic, reached backward with their arms and hooked them around his legs.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
5 Mar. 2026
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So this was a way to hook listeners that a straightforward mystery novel might not.—
Ivy Pochoda,
Oc Register,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Yoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yoke. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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