as in slaveries
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 strings
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 yokes
Alan Gionet,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
Both suits have sleeveless coveralls with yokes, front and back, of Lycra stretch knit.
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The Editors,
Outside,
20 Dec. 2025
The characters from Malczewski’s canvases march through successive decades, fighting and fleeing various yokes.
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Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
29 Oct. 2025
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His shirts also featured yokes and wider cuffs, a departure from the norm at the time.
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Alan Gionet,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
Both suits have sleeveless coveralls with yokes, front and back, of Lycra stretch knit.
—
The Editors,
Outside,
20 Dec. 2025
The characters from Malczewski’s canvases march through successive decades, fighting and fleeing various yokes.
—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yokes
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Brown and her creative team have gotten caught up in adornment without capturing a deeper undertow that strings it all together.
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The swoony strings coat the song with a lush, old-fashioned feel.
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Ortatepe said that the restaurant’s myriad influences — Greek, Turkish, Anatolian, Levantine — mesh with creating a space where culture connects guests.
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Once a device connects your brain signals to outside technology, the privacy stakes change fast.
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To address this, Ivo uses a multi-step pipeline that chains together more than 400 model calls for each contract review.
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Tokyo Central is owned by Japanese company Pan Pacific Retail Management, which also runs the grocery chains Gelson’s and Don Quijote.
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By deploying an aggressive, multifront strategy that couples strong law enforcement interdiction with a revolutionary model of public healthcare, Florida is proving to the nation that the war on fentanyl can be won.
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Much less attention is paid to the It couples whose love stories dominated headlines at the turn of the 20th century, however.
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However, businesses seeking a complete end-to-end multi-channel strategy that natively integrates global WhatsApp touchpoints, landing pages, and lead scoring will need to upgrade to the more advanced Zoho Marketing Automation platform.
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The court agreed that states have a legal responsibility to provide support that integrates disabled Americans into their communities, and for nearly three decades, courts across the country have embraced that interpretation.
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Here in British Columbia, for example, your provincial digital ID already links not only vaccination records, but also driver’s licenses, health data, education, land titles, property records, benefits, vehicle registration, insurance, permits, court records and business registrations.
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Speculation frequently links the New Jersey native to the Philadelphia Phillies.
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Real estate interconnects the problem of business debt with the crisis in local government financing.
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Armour hooks my arm, and the panic abates.
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Marketing experts say while more and more cash is flowing into the clip-ification of all things, those watching the content can view clips as cheap and disposable moments, not something that hooks someone on a show or internet personality.
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“Yokes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yokes. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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