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yield to



VERB
hear out
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About 45% expect the 10-year Treasury yield to be higher a year from now; the remainder see flat or slightly declining yields.

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said he is "not going to yield" to pressure from the US president to join the conflict in Iran.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

News of the cease-fire has caused bond prices to rise modestly and the yield to fall — but by less than you might expect.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

For decades, chicken thighs rated so low in the national pecking order that U.S. poultry producers unloaded much of their dark-meat yield to hungry markets abroad in Russia, Mexico, and across Asia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Concerned about the fallout from such a massive blast, Sakharov’s team had removed some of the nuclear fuel, lowering the bomb’s yield to fifty megatons—still, by far, the largest human-made explosion in history.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin




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