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Yes (Yes album)

Yes (1969) is the self-titled debut album by English rock band Yes, released on Atlantic, produced by Paul Clay, mixing originals with Beatles and Byrds covers; considered one of the first progressive rock albums.

Yes (כן) (2025 film)

Yes (כן) is a 2025 satirical drama by Israeli director Nadav Lapid, his fifth feature, premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight. It follows a jazz musician (Ariel Bronz) and his dancer wife (Efrat Dor) who, after October 7, compose a new national anthem; co-produced by France, Israel, Cyprus, and Germany.

Yes and no

Yes and no: English affirmative and negative response particles, studied as pro-sentences or ellipsis-derived clauses; covers truth-based versus polarity-based answering, echo systems, doch/si particles, and trimodal nod and vocalisation research.

Yes Bank

Yes Bank is a Mumbai-headquartered Indian private bank founded in 2004 by Rana Kapoor and Ashok Kapur, placed under moratorium in 2020 and rebuilt under an RBI scheme.

Yes Boss (film)

Yes Boss is a 1997 Hindi romantic comedy directed by Aziz Mirza, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla, and Aditya Pancholi, based on For Love or Money; a super-hit that won a Filmfare for playback singing.

Yes California

Yes California, also called the Yes California Independence Campaign or Calexit, is a Californian political action committee founded in 2015 promoting state secession; led by Louis Marinelli and Marcus Ruiz Evans, it surged after 2016, was damaged by Russia ties, and has been defunct since 2024.

Yes Day

Yes Day is a 2021 Netflix family comedy directed by Miguel Arteta, starring Jennifer Garner, Edgar Ramirez, and Jenna Ortega, adapted from Amy Krouse Rosenthal's 2009 picture book about parents saying yes for 24 hours.

Yes discography

Yes discography: catalog of the English progressive rock band Yes (formed 1968), spanning 24 studio albums from the 1969 debut Yes to Aurora (2026), plus live albums, compilations and reissues; classic 1970s run and the 1983 hit 90125.

Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman

Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman (ARW): 2016–2018 touring band of three former Yes members playing Yes music, renamed in April 2017, with Live at the Apollo as its sole release.

Yes Man (film)

Yes Man (2008), Peyton Reed comedy starring Jim Carrey as Carl Allen, who says yes to everything after a self-help seminar; based on Danny Wallace's memoir, Warner Bros release grossing $223 million worldwide.

Yes Minister

Yes Minister: BBC political satire sitcom by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn (three series from 1980, BBC Two), starring Paul Eddington as Jim Hacker and Nigel Hawthorne as Sir Humphrey Appleby; sequel Yes, Prime Minister (1986–1988), five Baftas, Thatcher's favourite show.

YES Network

YES Network (Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network), New York regional sports network launched March 19, 2002, holding exclusive regional rights to the Yankees and Brooklyn Nets; owned by Yankee Global Enterprises, Amazon, RedBird, and others; streaming moved to DAZN in 2026.

Yes Sir, I Can Boogie

Yes Sir, I Can Boogie: 1977 Eurodisco debut single by Spanish duo Baccara, written by Frank Dostal and Rolf Soja; UK number one in October 1977 and since 2020 the unofficial anthem of Scotland's football team.

Yes Theory

Yes Theory is an American-Canadian YouTube documentary and challenge series founded in Montreal in 2015 by Thomas Brag, Ammar Kandil, and Matt Dahlia, known for the Will Smith Grand Canyon bungee jump.

Yes, And?

"Yes, And?" (styled "yes, and?") is Ariana Grande's house-influenced comeback single, released January 12, 2024 via Republic Records as lead single of eternal sunshine, written with Max Martin and Ilya Salmanzadeh, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 2 in the UK.

Yes, Dear

Yes, Dear is a CBS family sitcom created by Alan Kirschenbaum and Greg Garcia, airing 2000-2006 in six seasons and 122 episodes about the Warners and Hugheses, in-laws with opposite parenting styles, starring Anthony Clark, Jean Louisa Kelly, Mike O'Malley, and Liza Snyder.

Yes, God, Yes

Yes, God, Yes: 2020 American coming-of-age comedy, Karen Maine's directorial debut, expanded from her 2017 short. Natalia Dyer plays Alice, a Catholic teen in early-2000s Iowa; SXSW 2019 premiere, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Yes, Madam (皇家师姐)

Yes, Madam (皇家師姐) is a 1985 Hong Kong action comedy directed by Corey Yuen, starring Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock as policewomen hunting a stolen microfilm; it opened the D&B cinema circuit, launched Yeoh's action career, and set the girls-with-guns template.

Yes, Prime Minister (2013 TV series)

Yes, Prime Minister (2013) is a six-episode Gold revival of the British political sitcom, written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn from their 2010 stage play, starring David Haig and Henry Goodman, set at Chequers, and largely panned by critics.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus is the famous line from "Is There a Santa Claus?", the unsigned September 21, 1897 New York Sun editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church answering eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon; the most reprinted English-language newspaper editorial, translated into about 20 languages.

YES1

YES1 (YES proto-oncogene 1, c-yes) is a human SRC family tyrosine kinase gene on chromosome 18p11.32, amplified in esophageal, lung, and other cancers, targetable by CH6953755, and a hepatitis E virus host factor.

Yesaji Kank

Yesaji Kank (येसाजी कंक) was a Maratha commander under Shivaji and Sambhaji, known for severing a war elephant's trunk at Golconda in the 1670s and for defending Fonda fort against the Portuguese.

YesAllWomen

YesAllWomen (#YesAllWomen) is a feminist Twitter hashtag created May 24, 2014, by @gildedspine after the Isla Vista killings, countering #NotAllMen; over one million tweets in days made it a 2014 top-ten hashtag and a precursor to #MeToo.

Yesbokheamani

Yesbokheamani (Yesebokheamani) was a king of Kush who reigned about AD 283–300, near the kingdom's end; his inscriptions span Lower Nubia to Meroë, though his tomb is unknown.

Yesemek

Yesemek Quarry and Sculpture Workshop, near İslahiye, Gaziantep, Turkey, is the largest known sculpture workshop of the ancient Near East, a Hittite and Neo-Hittite basalt quarry with over 600 unfinished lions, sphinxes, and god reliefs, now an open-air museum on the UNESCO Tentative List.

Yesh Atid (יש עתיד)

Yesh Atid, also known as יש עתד, is a centrist liberal political party in Israel. Founded by Yair Lapid in 2012, it served as the largest opposition party in 2022.

Yeshaq

Yeshaq (Isaac) was a thirteenth-century Egyptian monk of the Monastery of Saint Antony consecrated metropolitan of the Ethiopian Church by Patriarch John VI of Alexandria on 7 March 1210, replacing the deposed Mika'el II.

Yeshaq I

Yeshaq I (ይሥሐቅ), throne name Gabra Masqal, was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1414 to 1429/30, a Solomonic-dynasty ruler known for conquering territory from Ifat and sending the first Ethiopian delegation to Europe.

Yeshaq's campaigns in the Horn

Yeshaq's campaigns in the Horn were the expeditions of Emperor Yeshaq I of Ethiopia, who fought the Beta Israel and expanded the kingdom into the lowlands.

Yeshiva (ישיבה)

Yeshiva (ישיבה, plural yeshivot): Jewish all-male academy for intensive Torah and Talmud study, from Hebrew "sitting." Not a rabbinical seminary; paired havruta learning, daily shiur; modern form from 18th-century Lithuania; main centers Israel and the US.