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
Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
On its second test flight, however, the pilot was not available and Smolinski and Blake decided to take the wheel/yoke.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2025
Eric Rosenbach, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2019
What may ensue is a version of the ethnic transformation of Muslim-majority Xinjiang in western China, steadily yoked to the rest of the country by the migration of Han Chinese.
—Sumit Ganguly, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2019
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Noun
The telescopic arms of the yoke enable smooth adjustments so the headphones can fit a variety of head shapes and sizes.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
On its second test flight, however, the pilot was not available and Smolinski and Blake decided to take the wheel/yoke.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2025
Verb
Xi’s doctrine of civil-military fusion yokes together the research efforts of private corporations, China’s military industrial base, and the intelligence agencies of the People’s Liberation Army.
—Eric Rosenbach, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2019
What may ensue is a version of the ethnic transformation of Muslim-majority Xinjiang in western China, steadily yoked to the rest of the country by the migration of Han Chinese.
—Sumit Ganguly, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yoke
Noun
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In 2022, Musk was accused of corporate slavery, perpetuating work abuse and job burnout.—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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While many narratives about Black Americans from this time period focus on southern sharecroppers and other cultural offshoots of slavery, The Gilded Age offers a peek inside another facet of Black life.—
Evan Nicole Brown,
Architectural Digest,
25 July 2025
Verb
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This new sleeper train service aims to connect over 100 cities with affordable overnight train routes, including Copenhagen.—
Michele Robson,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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All of these people are narcos, somehow connected to the drug world.—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Adding all this up, odds seemed good that my family lacked a connection to the horrors of human bondage.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
31 July 2025
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The end of bondage was ostensibly codified in the 13th Amendment ratified later that year.—
Timothy Welbeck,
The Conversation,
16 June 2025
Verb
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Her debut presentation, staged around a vintage dentist’s chair, featured silver or gold-plated molars strung into necklaces and bracelets with colorful enameled links, or worn as earrings set with semiprecious stones.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
4 Aug. 2025
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The Sox strung seven consecutive hits together while scoring seven runs in the inning, which included three-run home runs by Miguel Vargas and Edgar Quero.—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
30 July 2025
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Davis was previously ordered to pay $100,000 in damages to couple David Ermold and David Moore and $260,000 for their attorneys fees and expenses.—
Marina Johnson,
The Courier-Journal,
12 Aug. 2025
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The single most effective method of preventing a hacker from taking over your account is to use a more secure form of user credentials than a username and password combo, even when coupled to two-factor authentication.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Even after the ratification of the 13th Amendment, Black people were often forced into other forms of servitude and new types of enslavement.—
Andrea Wurzburger,
People.com,
18 June 2025
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There was, however, a fateful exception: slavery or involuntary servitude would remain permissible as punishment for crimes.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
30 June 2025
Verb
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The International Monetary Fund has a central role leading the international effort to support Ukrainian reform, lessening Ukraine’s economic vulnerabilities, and better integrating the country as a market economy in the multilateral system.—
Miriam Sapiro,
Time,
15 Aug. 2025
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On some models, these may be raised handles or integrated into the frame of the tray.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
15 Aug. 2025
Verb
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But as an unstable climate delivers too little water, careening temperatures and chaotic storms, the fates of human food production and birds are ever more linked—with the same climate anomalies that harm birds hurting agriculture too.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Aug. 2025
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Fourteen defendants, all of whom were linked to the extremist groups the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, received commutations, releasing them from prison though not erasing their felony convictions from their records.—
Tom Dreisbach,
NPR,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Yoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yoke. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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