YAW Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

yaw

verb

Definition of yaw

as in to veer

to depart abruptly from a straight line or course the ship yawed hard to the right when the rogue wave hit it broadside

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straighten

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Recent Examples of yaw The out-of-control motion radiated down to the spacecraft itself, which began yawing and pitching in response to the force. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Nov. 2025 The scene in the lobby yawed from hysteric to melancholic and back—hundreds of people surrounded by tote bags and dogs, trading rumors, bleak jokes, and fragments of actual news. — Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025 Most airplanes in the world have vertical tails or rudders to prevent Dutch roll instabilities, a combination of yawing and sideways motions with rolling that looks a bit like the movements of a skater. — Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2024 In the event of acceleration or yawing towards one side, the sensors will come into play, signaling the control unit and in turn the motor to counter the forces on the sidecar's wheel. — New Atlas, 4 Oct. 2024 Every other car feels solid, locked-in, makes downforce in a straight line, rather than yawed out. — Jeff Gluck, The Athletic, 3 July 2024 The plane yawed left and right, dipped and climbed to avoid the flocks, churning my stomach like a roller coaster. — Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023 Combining that data with a simple wind model, the algorithm projected that yawing each of the five upstream turbines about 20 degrees to the north would maximize the group's generation from the northwest winds. — IEEE Spectrum, 1 July 2019

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Of course, there is always the risk that Cyberleek could start veering into actual story spoilers, which would be exceptionally damaging.

— Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
But the mystery train starts veering off the rails as Flowers wanders away from enjoyable rhinestone reinvention and defaults to the heavy-handed Springsteenian realism that’s sometimes been both his Rosetta stone and his Achilles’ heel.

— Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2026

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