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
Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
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
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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
But then come the passages of cockeyed brilliance—such as this one, yoking Nicholas’s philosophical meditation on the nature of subjective perception to the 1960s sitcom Gilligan’s Island.
—Scott Stossel, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yoke
Noun
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But by the end of the 19th century—after slavery was abolished in 1888 and coffee production became further industrialized—Paraty slid into a period of extended decline.—
David Amsden,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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Personal family accounts reveal how, despite slavery, Jim Crow and other roadblocks, the Malloy clan became one of Laurinburg’s richest and most powerful.—
Essence,
Essence,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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More than 60% of 136 facilities connected to missile production or the Chinese military’s rocket force, which controls China’s nuclear arsenal, showed signs of expansion in satellite images.—
Tamara Qiblawi,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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This can then aid you in targeting your audience, guiding you in adjusting prices to consumer needs, and even lead you to use AI to personalize marketing messages to better connect with certain groups.—
K.H. Koehler,
jsonline.com,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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For enslaved people, the Revolution was a fierce campaign to stage the largest exodus out of bondage since biblical times.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Douglass’s former North Star co-editor, Martin Delany, who had been admitted to Harvard Medical School but was forced out after white students complained, responded to Dred Scott — and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 — by writing a novel whose hero escapes bondage and plots an overthrow of slavery.—
Equal Justice Initiative,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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The Raptors have to string good efforts together.—
Eric Koreen,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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Take the train from Copenhagen in under three hours and wander Aarhus’s pretty streets strung with Christmas lights, ducking into boutiques and cafés before making your way to one of two Christmas markets.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
27 Oct. 2025
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Boston Dynamics couples perception (IMUs, cameras, possibly LiDAR) with these controllers to enable rapid reflexive responses.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
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The exes, who briefly but intensely coupled up last year on season 6 of the Peacock hit, didn’t exactly end on the best terms.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
27 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The software, called VenApp, was originally launched by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in 2022 as a hybrid application, integrating a messaging service with a helpline for people to report issues with utility services, such as power outages and water disruptions.—
Stefano Pozzebon,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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Pisen's smart power solutions are designed to integrate into this dynamic urban fabric, where every minute holds value and no moment should be cut short by a dead battery.—
Lyssanoel Frater,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Marshall and Flagg linked up in the first quarter for one of the best sequences the Mavericks had all night.—
Christian Clark,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Some of the same people caught in the FBI’s NBA probe are also linked to suspicious college betting.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
9 Nov. 2025
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With the Dodgers’ season on the line, Rojas hooked Hoffman’s elevated slider into the first row of left-field seats, stealing the spotlight from Ohtani while sending his teammates spilling from the first-base dugout.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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Hahn and Jeff Glaid, the WGFD biologist who conducted the study, told a room full of anglers in 2024 that if regulations didn’t change, and hooking injuries to fish — like bottom jaws torn off and severe scarring — continued, the department would have to start restocking in earnest.—
Christine Peterson,
Outdoor Life,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Yoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yoke. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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