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Six example sentences with yield, each labelled with its topic.
Ten thousand pounds in that account will yield about four hundred a year at the current rate.
Finance
One kilo of tomatoes will yield roughly two cups of sauce once the water has cooked away.
Cooking
Replanting the hedgerows yielded more than shelter: beetle counts tripled and the farm's pollinators returned within three summers.
Environment
The survey yielded thirty new species of beetle from a single hectare of forest canopy.
Science
Six weeks of consistent training yielded a faster mile than three years of occasional jogging had.
Fitness
The pricing test yielded a clear answer within a week: users would pay for storage but not for themes.
Startups
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Found in 9 published word lists
- Academic Keyword List (Paquot 2010)Authoritative
- Business Word List (part 2)Authoritative
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)Authoritative
- General Service List (West 1953, Bauman/Culligan rev.)Authoritative
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- Science Vocabulary ListAuthoritative
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
- GregMat 960 GRE WordsRecognized
Each source is a published word list that contains yield. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.