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
Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
An actor’s reputation can sometimes feel like a heavy yoke; in Gladiator II, Denzel tosses it off and has a blast, taking the audience with him.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
Pairing the two tracks yoked humanitarian relief to the far thornier matter of aligning both parties to the conflict on the terms of a cease-fire.
—Jeremy Konyndyk, Foreign Affairs, 2 Dec. 2024
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Noun
What if language is less like a yoke than like a wind, nudging us in various directions?
—Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
An actor’s reputation can sometimes feel like a heavy yoke; in Gladiator II, Denzel tosses it off and has a blast, taking the audience with him.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
Verb
Still, the similarities are felt, stylistically and technically, in the collage-like form and the free manipulation of archival images—and, above all, in a shared sense of audacious yet exquisite aestheticism yoked to a strain of refined, resolute insolence.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
Pairing the two tracks yoked humanitarian relief to the far thornier matter of aligning both parties to the conflict on the terms of a cease-fire.
—Jeremy Konyndyk, Foreign Affairs, 2 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yoke
Noun
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Then, Trump went on to insult every man woman and child in the United States by making light of the impact of slavery on our nation’s history.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
23 Feb. 2025
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Without mass death to keep the population in check, the herd would have to be culled by way of sterilization, slavery, or blood sport.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
Verb
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At the waist of Jones’ dress were cutouts and two bands of fabric connecting the bodice to the skirt.—
Julia Teti,
WWD,
21 Feb. 2025
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The project, as it was originally envisioned, would connect Los Angeles and San Francisco in two hours and 40 minutes with 220-mile-per-hour trains, among the fastest in the world, at a cost of $33 billion.—
Ralph Vartabedian,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Passing for White to Escape Slavery Passing for white was an intentional strategy that enslaved people used to free themselves from bondage.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Feb. 2025
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By the late 17th century, rulers had issued further decrees and orders urging officials in Spanish America to liberate Indigenous peoples still in bondage.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
6 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Cars everywhere were ablaze, and a dome of embers arced above the avenue like festival lights strung above streets in Little Italy.—
Stephen Rodrick,
Rolling Stone,
13 Feb. 2025
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After a while, the building’s owner strung a chain out front to deter trespassers — to no avail.—
Brittany Loggins,
New York Times,
14 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The park coupled the announcement with a construction update for its Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift roller coaster, which was announced in 2023 and is set to open in 2026.—
Dewayne Bevil,
Orlando Sentinel,
26 Feb. 2025
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In the series hybrid, the engine is not mechanically coupled to the wheels at all.—
Sam Abuelsamid,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Advertisement California Nevada just banned ‘slavery and involuntary servitude’ in prisons.—
Anabel Sosa,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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The legislation also removes language authorizing slavery and involuntary servitude as possible criminal punishments.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA TODAY,
1 Jan. 2025
Verb
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At the University of Chicago, a spokesman for NORC, which is part of a consortium that last year received a $53 million, 10-year grant to better integrate the use of evidence and data into USAID programs, declined to comment on the status of its funding.—
Dan Petrella,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Mar. 2025
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The mass layoffs from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — more than 600, according to the former agency head — include at least one high-profile meteorologist in Miami and another charged with integrating artificial intelligence into climate and weather predictions.—
Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
1 Mar. 2025
Verb
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The list includes: customers; an operating model linking people and processes; data and information; and products and services.—
Mark A. Cohen,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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While the warning was emphatic — and the accounts linked to the scheme were suspended — newer meme accounts promoting Stake have continued to pop up on the site.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
23 Feb. 2025
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“Yoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yoke. Accessed 8 Mar. 2025.
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