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
New Atlas, 6 Feb. 2025
They were clearly designed with the yoke steering wheel of the concept car Cyberster in mind, because with the regular round wheel of the production version, the two side screens are obscured by your hands.
—James Morris, Fortune Europe, 6 Oct. 2024
Mark Greif, Harper's Magazine, 26 July 2024
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
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Noun
Instead of a traditional wheel, the Filante Record 2025 has a sci-fi-style yoke with protruding handles on each side that use steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire systems to control steering, stopping, and acceleration.
—New Atlas, 6 Feb. 2025
They were clearly designed with the yoke steering wheel of the concept car Cyberster in mind, because with the regular round wheel of the production version, the two side screens are obscured by your hands.
—James Morris, Fortune Europe, 6 Oct. 2024
Verb
In service of such historical comprehensiveness, Jameson has yoked some dissimilar books into sequence.
—Mark Greif, Harper's Magazine, 26 July 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yoke
Noun
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Lewis was working within the Neoclassical mode, recycling the stylings of ancient Greece for a new era concerned with enforcing the abolition of slavery.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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Vanessa Northington Gamble, a physician and medical historian at George Washington University, says Crumpler’s story is part of a lineage of Black healers dating back to the time of slavery.—
Ella Jeffries,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
Verb
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But that doesn’t come through with AI; that’s not a tube connected to that source.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Mar. 2025
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That’s how Thomas McNeese, who heads the wellness program at the Harris County Sheriff’s Office in Houston, describes the aftermath of the fourth suicide connected to the department in the span of six weeks.—
Rosa Flores,
CNN Money,
29 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This economic bondage, called sharecropping, was a system by which tenant farmers rented land from large landowners.—
David Cason,
The Conversation,
7 Mar. 2025
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Leigh Bowery, the fashion icon and transgressive performance artist, designed several costumes (assless slacks; sparkly bondage suits) for Atlas’s video pieces and often appeared on-screen as a kind of spiritual hype man.—
Beatrice Loayza,
ARTnews.com,
6 Feb. 2025
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The good news for the Suns is that Durant is still here and destroying teams, and Phoenix is finally stringing wins together, including notable ones against winning teams like the Cavaliers and Bucks. Josh Giddey and the Bulls are on an improbable roll.—
Law Murray,
The Athletic,
25 Mar. 2025
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Theirs sits on the ground, just bare bulbs screwed into the ends of copper piping strung with wires, powering through a wondrous cycle of dimming and illumination, conjuring electricity’s arrival to the Marble Palace long ago.—
Lori Waxman,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Ground source heat pumps coupled to thermal networks (like the thermal loop at CAS) can also provide energy storage for additional efficiency and cost savings.—
David Englert,
Hartford Courant,
3 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile, with Janine and Gregory happily coupled and in love, Abbott shifts the spotlight onto another slow burn with Ava and O’Shon circling each other as the season progresses.—
Ile-Ife Okantah,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Our protagonist is, once again, drifter Max Rockatansky (previously played by Mel Gibson, but now inhabited by Tom Hardy), who is captured and forced into servitude as a human blood bag for one of Joe’s warriors.—
Travis Bean,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Instead of constitutional rights and freedoms, Ukraine has a martial law now, which effectively reduces citizens to a state of servitude.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
13 Dec. 2024
Verb
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While the material isn’t new to the design world—it’s been integrated into interiors for thousands of years—its popularity hasn’t waned, especially in recent decades.—
Rachel Gallaher,
Robb Report,
23 Mar. 2025
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Thus did six-year-old Sonnie Hereford IV become the first Black child to integrate an Alabama public school—nine years after Brown.—
Essence,
Essence,
22 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Such scents link to trends in ritual and mindfulness practices: meditation, yoga and sleep routines.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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The number of people arrested in New York City for low-level offenses who are being put through the system rather than being given desk appearance tickets rose sharply in the first two months of 2025, a trend the Legal Aid Society is linking to two in-custody deaths.—
Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Yoke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yoke. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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