yoke

Christ disappointed many who expected the Messiah to overthrow the yoke of Roman oppression.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

It featured a female panther resting its paws on a severed head, and was probably attached to the body of a carriage or wagon or to the yoke, which hitched draught animals to the vehicle.

From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026

The guard video, shot over the pilot’s left shoulder, shows him aggressively working the yoke to keep the enormous plane airborne and on target to release a drenching stream of fire retardant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 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

This was to yoke two bulls he had, whose feet were of bronze and whose breath was flaming fire, and with them to plow a field.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

Elsewhere, there were men working in the fields, and women carrying water in yokes across their shoulders.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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

What, exactly, is the yoked candidate trying to tell us?

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2023

Montana, whose unofficial nicknames include the “Treasure State,” has long had its fortunes yoked to the mining industry.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

Instead of being yoked to outfit sets, “you had the ability to mix and match a skirt with a more formal top,” says fashion historian Sara Idacavage, an instructor at the University of Georgia.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2023

“I tried and failed to change his bloody course. There can be no peace or good in being yoked to a husband who is intent upon revenge. Therefore I go.”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

But there’s a lot of this election cycle left to go, and voluntarily yoking themselves to something a lot of people would really hate is a bold choice.

From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2024

Arizona’s First District, yoking relatively liberal Scottsdale to conservative Paradise Valley and other communities in northeast Phoenix, includes most of the region that Representative David Schweikert represented before maps were redrawn.

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2022

They have, Keegin says, “by and large subordinated their work as professional intellectuals and historians to the news cycle, yoking their reputations to the delirious churn of outrage media.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2022

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

Medea, however, his daughter, fell in love with Jason, and by her means, assisted by Hecate, he succeeded in yoking the ferocious bulls and plowing the field, and sowing it with dragons' teeth.

From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord