yoke

Someone has to yoke the memory of Iran’s pre-1979 past to a live possibility of a better future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 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

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

She smocked the yoke into tiny crisscrossing puckers, then shirred the rest of the bodice.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

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

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

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

The ultimate explanation of Lawrence’s error came, perhaps inevitably, from Rutherford, who demonstrated once again the potency of his theoretical instincts when they were yoked to the experimental precision of the Cavendish.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

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

We all took our turns except the cook, who was relieved from that duty and from yoking and hitching up his own team, as cooking for sixteen men while in camp was no sinecure.

From A Gold Hunter's Experience by Hambleton, Chalkley J.