yoke
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The yoke is pulled back in the final seconds, subjecting the jet to a peak vertical G-force of 3.08.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The event involves a deadlift ladder - four deadlift bars in a row – a 136kg shield carry, a 280kg yoke carried across the back, and reps with a 90kg wooden log.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2025
On another page an elderly farmer in the Fujian Province of China struggles under a shoulder yoke of watering cans.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2024
“Megalopolis” isn’t well-served by synopses that call it a “city poem” or yoke its wild ambitions to ancient Rome’s power struggles or municipal intrigue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2024
They are not in the position of the Africans, who are attempting to reclaim their land and break the colonial yoke and recover from the colonial experience.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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The trial yokes together three different cases, meaning Jones could rule for the challengers in some instances and not others.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2023
And although archaeologists have found Yamnaya wagons, oxen, and yokes, riding equipment—such as bridles or saddles—is missing entirely.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 2, 2023
No yokes about it – this girl’s a riot.
From Fox News ● Mar. 18, 2021
The project, titled "Operation Warp Speed," yokes Kushner together with senior White House adviser Peter Navarro, who first floated the idea to the administration in February, the Daily Beast reports.
From Salon ● May 8, 2020
They steadied the buckets with their hands, but the weight hung from the yokes on their shoulders.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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If Piker could become yoked, then anything was possible.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2025
For too long, cottage cheese was unfairly yoked to the diet industrial complex or discarded as an old-school, if virtuous, deli or diner side.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2023
The metaverse project wouldn’t suffer from being yoked to a controversial advertising business, and it would be fully funded for a decade.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2023
They have played for years in Anaheim, in Orange County, yet they’re historically and legally yoked to L.A. in a freeway-friction cousinship to which L.A. is pretty much indifferent but one that grieves Orange County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
The horses carried it off in cart-loads, the sheep dragged single blocks, even Muriel and Benjamin yoked themselves into an old governess-cart and did their share.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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AI is sucking in capital, workers, equipment and raw materials from around the world, yoking the fortunes of major economies to a technology that is becoming more enmeshed in workplaces and daily life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
That idea ran counter to blocos’ freewheeling nature, plus some organizers expressed worry it was a further attempt to “privatize” Carnival by yoking them with corporate sponsorship.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
Meanwhile, more and more of us are yoking ourselves to increasingly narrow ideological and oratorical identities.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2018
Without yoking herself to some cumbersome Greek chorus, Watts has invented a communal voice that’s infinitely flexible, capable of surveying the whole depressed town or lingering tenderly in a grieving mother’s mind.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2017
Then the inspanning, the yoking up of the oxen again, and the start once more.
From Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure by W. Boucher
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