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They also form a partnership and set out to make their fortune and save the planet with a tidal-energy company that they claim will “power our civilization by slinging a yoke around the moon.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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

The “Texas is back!” meme has hung like a yoke on the Bevo steer mascot since 2016.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

Again, when, after the battle of Mohács, we threw off the Hungarian yoke, we of the Dracula blood were amongst their leaders, for our spirit would not brook that we were not free.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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

The reversal highlighted both the fragility of the eight-way coalition, which yokes together politicians who would normally be bitter ideological opponents, and Raam’s pivotal but imperiled position.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2022

No yokes about it – this girl’s a riot.

From Fox News ● Mar. 18, 2021

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

Yet the films are still yoked together under Kwedar’s helpful catchphrase — human connection in impossible places — as well as their tendency to bring lesser-known character actors into the spotlight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 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

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

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 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

But in the presence of their subjects, King Hamlet and Queen Gertrude were yoked to each other in rule and in love, bestowing all their pride on their son.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

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

Part of the reason for yoking the climate bills to transportation was to force action on a much-needed transportation package.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2021

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

My dear Tom,—I should be happy to attend to your commission about a dominie for your boy, but I think there will be much risk in yoking yourself with one for three or four years.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart