yoked

past tense of yoke

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of yoked On the giant screens suspended over the stadium, guests could scan a QR code, which would lead to a website that would transform the subject of a selfie, using AI, into an Enhanced athlete, as yoked-out as the ones in front of them. — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 25 May 2026 The director, Pierre Salvadori, is described on the Cannes website as being an ardent devotee of the tradition of Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder and Blake Edwards (though maybe only in France would that third name be yoked to the other two). — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 May 2026 Further, one of Vox’s advantages in the space over its audio-only competitors is that some of the shows are yoked, at least tangentially, to Vox’s publishing business, which provides additional marketing, promotion, and a funnel for some talent. — Max Tani, semafor.com, 22 Mar. 2026 The male stands at an impressive six feet ten inches long, yoked to the max with rippling muscles. — Chris Hewitt, Boston Herald, 1 Feb. 2026 The Communist Party, formed in 1919, yoked its reputation to the Soviet Union run by Vladimir Lenin and then Joseph Stalin, one of the most repressive regimes in modern history. — Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025 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 The endless green expanse of rice paddies that once framed the road in from the airport—furrowed by water buffalo yoked to wooden carts—has shrunk to a few token acres. — Peter Jon Lindberg, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yoked
Verb
  • In several messages quoted in the ruling, Seaver allegedly threatened Nozell and other people connected to Parton’s estate.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026
  • There are two main anchors, the North and South Pavilions, connected by a track almost three kilometers in length, twisting and turning between dunes and rock formations.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The uptick in ridership was kneecapped by the company’s tension between the need to raise fares and its need to bring in more passengers, wrote Fitch Ratings in its analysis that coupled a credit downgrading earlier this year.
    — Joshua Ceballos, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The chips are coupled via a small piezoelectric disc that flexes when the qubit's electric field changes.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The hotel was seamlessly integrated into one of Lisbon’s most historic areas—the church was one of the few landmarks to survive a 1755 earthquake that decimated much of Lisbon.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Most optical switches rely on an IR light and a sensor that are integrated into the keyboard’s PCB.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Both linked the situation to an unusually poor autumn crop of pine nuts and berries.
    — Arina Porkhovnik, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026
  • But the reverse doesn’t hold—different knots might be linked to the same polynomial.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The Democrats wrote in a summary of the allegations that immigrants sleep while restrained with handcuffs, leg irons and belly chains, and even elderly people have been chained for 16 hours a day.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Apple is keeping up by enabling M5 Pro Mac minis to be chained together via Thunderbolt 5 to share their computational resources for larger AI models.
    — Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The mermaid headboard was also created by Friday, who strung the fish-string lights too.
    — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Cleveland finally strung some hits together in the fourth, scoring three times off starter Mason Barnett to tie it.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026

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“Yoked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yoked. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

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