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The phrase "a yoke" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a physical device that joins two animals together for work, or metaphorically to describe a burden or something that constrains someone.
Example: "The farmer placed a yoke on the oxen to help them pull the heavy plow through the field."
Alternatives: "a burden" or "a constraint".
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Not that he ever felt the past as a yoke.
One has a yoke linked to the chariot.
Many conclude that, once in place, solidarity ceases being voluntary and instead becomes a yoke.
The huge debt overhang is a yoke holding back economic growth.
Each of these people might as well be wearing a yoke around his neck.
Of course we strain against marriage; it's a bound canvas, a yoke.
They set off in early moring carrying two huge wooden buckets on a yoke, a picnic lunch & water.
Cimon urged compliance, comparing Athens and Sparta to a yoke of oxen working together for the good of Greece.
Light war chariots were drawn by either two or three horses, which were harnessed by means of chest girths secured by one or two poles and a yoke.
The top is feminine and narrow with a yoke and gathering and the trousers are fitted at the top with wide legs and detailed with zippers".
Corruption is a source of growing public anger and frustration in India, and a yoke threatening to drag down the coalition government led by the National Congress Party.
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