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
Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 25 July 2025
Key features: 50mm objective lens diameter, four eyepieces, three Barlow lenses, manual yoke mount, free download to astronomy software program.
—Kat Bayly, Space.com, 10 July 2025
Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
It is yoked to no particular emotional state, and emerges just as often when the actor is conveying deep glee or charming irony as when his character is lost in sorrow.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2025
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Noun
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The Chevy California Corvette concept’s yoke and dashboard.
—Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 25 July 2025
Key features: 50mm objective lens diameter, four eyepieces, three Barlow lenses, manual yoke mount, free download to astronomy software program.
—Kat Bayly, Space.com, 10 July 2025
Verb
One such example can be found in the Latin mythological text Fabulae, in which the sisters of Phaethon are transformed into poplar trees as punishment for yoking his chariot without their father’s permission.
—Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
It is yoked to no particular emotional state, and emerges just as often when the actor is conveying deep glee or charming irony as when his character is lost in sorrow.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yoke
Noun
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These are powerful places exploring dark parts of American history, like segregation and slavery.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
8 Oct. 2025
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The river also was a focal point for those seeking to escape the bonds of slavery, said Woods, something that festival organizers hope to educate people about through its Freedom Journey smartphone app, now available to download.—
Beryl Love,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
7 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Pérez said medical workers who visited the station learned about her daughter’s condition and connected the family to a hospital charity care program.—
Melissa Sanchez,
ProPublica,
10 Oct. 2025
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There will be trick-or-treating, costume contests, spook-tacular inflatables, Halloween crafts and vendor booths to connect families with community resources.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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To be a partisan is to live in intellectual bondage.—
John H Bolthouse,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Oct. 2025
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The American border agency said its probe identified abuse of vulnerability, abusive working and living conditions, debt bondage, withholding of wages, and excessive overtime.—
Wayne Chang,
CNN Money,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Take a stroll downtown to spot miniature pumpkins dangling from the oaks along Main Street, or meander down smaller streets to find oversized skeletons by the sidewalks and witches’ hats strung overhead.—
Symiah Dorsey,
Southern Living,
11 Oct. 2025
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In 2019, the predecessor to ChatGPT was barely able to string a coherent sentence together; just three years later, fed with more data and computing power, ChatGPT became a world sensation.—
Billy Perrigo,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
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Once captured by the QuBUS, the photons were coupled into a fiber optic cable and sent to an ion trap at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) in Erlangen for analysis.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Oct. 2025
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Modern qubit circuits have more knobs and wires and things, but that’s just how to tune the levels, how to couple or entangle them.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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But the character’s state of servitude is largely hidden in clumsy blocking.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
29 Sep. 2025
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Whether a cell in 1598 played a part in conceiving of the scrawny, hobbled hidalgo with a cardboard visor and a bent lance is arguable, but Cervantes’ far more traumatic enslavement from 1571 until 1576 must have formed his intimate comprehension of the difference between freedom and servitude.—
Ed Simon
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Following the success, Google may be planning to integrate the image model into some of its other apps and services.—
Jibin Joseph,
PC Magazine,
8 Oct. 2025
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In those intervening 35 years, China had moved 800 million rural peasants — living in extreme poverty on US$2 a day — into city apartments and integrated them into the global economy.—
Peter Leyden,
Big Think,
7 Oct. 2025
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The agency defines an outbreak as three or more cases that are linked.—
Maria Godoy,
NPR,
12 Oct. 2025
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Other companies explain how their security keys fit into your cybersecurity toolkit, such as Yubico's posts about open authentication standards supported by its products, or the list of services accepting hardware security keys sponsored by Nitrokey (linked to by Google).—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
12 Oct. 2025
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“Yoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yoke. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.
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