All 6 Uses
yield
in
The Blind Side, by Michael Lewis
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- An Internet search for "Oher" yielded nothing on him.
p. 30.7 *yielded = produced
- From a yield of 4.
p. 115.1yield = production
- No one invested in Michael Oher, and so he yielded no visible returns.
p. 297.9 *yielded = gave in, gave way, or gave up
- yield from this mill was monotonously consistent going all the way back to 1960.†
p. 114.1
- The league as a whole, however, never figured out how to make the running game yield even a fraction of a yard more than it always had.†
p. 114.1
- He devoted so much time and energy to defying his own size that it couldn't help but yield results.†
p. 308.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(yield as in: will yield valuable data) to produce (usually something wanted); or the thing or amount produced
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(2)
(yield as in: yield to pressure) to give in, give way, or give up
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)