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yoke

[yohk] / yoʊk /




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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

“Megalopolis” isn’t well-served by synopses that call it a “city poem” or yoke its wild ambitions to ancient Rome’s power struggles or municipal intrigue.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2024

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

From Washington Times • Dec. 28, 2023

Labs found new ways to shrink battery sizes, yoke them together and raise energy output.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2023

Rad Lab staff and associates seated in the lap of the magnet yoke of the 60-inch, under construction in the still-skeletal Crocker Lab.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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