All 7 Uses

yield
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
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And I know that is a story my mother wouldn't have yielded to Dan.†
p. 112.3

yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
Chief Pike had carried the fallen postal thespian into the bracing night air, where Mr. Morrison had revived with a vengeance—wrestling in the snow with Gravesend's determined chief of police, until Mr. Morrison yielded to the strong arm of the law.†
p. 257.4
The subject of "concerned" parents and alumni yielded an especially lively and controversial column for The Voice.†
p. 294.6 *
The class loved Sartre and Camus—the concept of "the unyielding evidence of a life without consolation" was thrilling to us teenagers.†
p. 314.9

unyielding = strict, firm, or hard (not giving in, not giving way, or not giving up)

standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unyielding means not and reverses the meaning of yielding. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
In the end, I yielded to Mrs. Brocklebank's frenzy to educate herself; I said I'd lend her my copy of The Life of the Tidepool.†
p. 318.1

yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
Those two devotions need not necessarily yield an unexciting life, but my life has been determinedly unexciting; my life is a reading list.†
p. 580.7 *

yield = produce or give
But Harriet Wheelwright was fair-minded enough, and smart enough, to yield in the case of a small difference of opinion.†
p. 45.9

Definitions:

(1) (yield as in: will yield valuable data)
to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced
(2) (yield as in: yield to pressure)
to give in, give way, or give up
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)