yoked
Example Sentences
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The hoped-for showdown between summer juggernauts “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” improbably yoked by a meme that launched a box office bonanza and eventually outlived its cleverness, didn’t quite materialize on nominations day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
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
Instead of being yoked to outfit sets, “you had the ability to mix and match a skirt with a more formal top,” says fashion historian Sara Idacavage, an instructor at the University of Georgia.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2023
Although they seemed to ignore what both of them knew and what each one knew that the other knew, from that night on they were yoked together in an inviolable complicity.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
