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That decision likely led NBC to yank the plug despite its high ratings, Fales-Hill admitted to Vanity Fair.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

It’s fascinating to watch Jack and Wendy jealously yank the power balance back and forth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

"As Ozzy would say, 'when you want to remember me, just yank up the music really loud, as loud as you can get it, and just head bang'."

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Griffin, for his part, responded by threatening to yank Citadel from the Park Avenue development project.

From Barron's ● May 5, 2026

I yank the strings and pull the fabric closed over my face.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

They’re about to kiss when her best friend yanks her away to go somewhere else, so she taps her number into Owen’s phone and dashes off.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Unfazed by the crashing waves, 72-year-old Wu Feng-chiao yanks fistfuls of brownish-purple seaweed she will process into jelly, one of the last women in Taiwan keeping the marine harvest tradition alive.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

Fantastic as it is, “Working Girl’s” core flaw is that Tess can’t snag her seat at the conference table until she yanks Katharine out of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

"As soon as I get his harness out, he yanks, which he doesn't normally, but he gets quite excited because he knows he is going in the sidecar," he continued.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

Sheryl yanks her gloves off and throws them onto the ground.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

On the first morning at Headingley, Root yanked a wayward Jofra Archer from the attack after only two overs.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Then I remembered that the ceiling fan has one speed at which it rattles faintly but insistently, so I got out of bed, yanked the chain and sent the blades spinning faster.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

From November 2025 through this May, as bitcoin’s price collapsed more than 30%, people yanked $6 billion out of these ETFs, locking in losses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Greenberg yanked his bat back, looking like a young Ken Griffey Jr. He struck the ball hard, but sent a one-hopper straight toward a third baseman no older than 40.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

As he yanked on it the thread pulled up a tassel, which topped a funny little red hat.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

He left the oral arguments over birthright citizenship early, as if he were Charlie Brown and Chief Justice John Roberts were Lucy yanking the football away from him at the last second.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2026

Kim, handed a rare start with Dayot Upamecano out sick, was sent off in the 63rd minute, picking up a second yellow for yanking Raul Florucz's arm as the winger went on the attack.

From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026

It’s fairly ridiculous, that NFL teams are so starved for quarterback talent that they turn to hobbled 40-something mercenaries—look at Indianapolis, yanking a happily retired Philip Rivers out of the school carpool lane—but Rodgers delivered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

And you certainly wouldn’t expect the 74-year-old Rinaudo seated at a century-old instrument, yanking pull-cords and pushing pedals while the machine in front of him whirs and whistles to a rag-timey tune.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025

Frantic, I start yanking her letters out of the box, checking the dates, scanning each page for potential hints.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day