as in to use
to take unfair advantage of
unscrupulous people trying to milk the welfare system for all it's worth
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Recent Examples of milk
Contracts are growing so massive that not every player will care about milking their respective teams for every dollar possible.
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Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Cow washes up on beach amid devastating flooding This cow wasn’t milking it as one Australian woman discovered the animal washed ashore nearly 11 miles from home during unprecedented flooding.
—Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2025
The Old English name for this full moon was Milk Moon, as May was considered the month when cows could be milked three times a day.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2025
The introduction of the first milking machines, called bucket milkers, helped farmers milk 10 cows per hour instead of 4 by the mid-1920s.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Apr. 2025
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Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Cow washes up on beach amid devastating flooding This cow wasn’t milking it as one Australian woman discovered the animal washed ashore nearly 11 miles from home during unprecedented flooding.
—Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2025
The Old English name for this full moon was Milk Moon, as May was considered the month when cows could be milked three times a day.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2025
The introduction of the first milking machines, called bucket milkers, helped farmers milk 10 cows per hour instead of 4 by the mid-1920s.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for milk
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This is when the teen uses social conflict to express frustration.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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The treatment had never been used on a species of raptor before, but Ammann took a leap and sent them an email.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
6 July 2025
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Given that many forms of manufacturing are labor-intensive, any country where the cost of labor is lower than the cost in the U.S. can exploit such an opportunity.—
Sheldon H. Jacobson,
Chicago Tribune,
22 July 2025
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Lunn promised to provide low-cost necessities—groceries, coal, and ice for the pre-electric era iceboxes—by starting city-run businesses to compete with private merchants who exploited their poor customers.—
Time,
Time,
22 July 2025
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According to prosecutors, Maxwell helped Jeffrey Epstein recruit, groom, and abuse minor girls from about 1994 to about 2004, including girls as young as 14 years old.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
25 July 2025
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At the time of her death, Sardinha was studying to become a counselor with the hope of working with women who had been abused, her mother told Orange County Superior Court Judge Michael J. Leversen.—
Sean Emery,
Oc Register,
25 July 2025
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Can Nigeria leverage its Olympic successes to secure a historic fifth crown?—
Sindiswa Mabunda,
Forbes.com,
26 July 2025
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Philippines Seeking Deal: Trump is set to meet at the White House with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines, who is seeking to leverage his country’s close relationship with the United States to secure a more favorable trade deal.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
25 July 2025
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Fast-forward to this month, when Paramount agreed to a $16 million settlement to move past Trump's claims that CBS's 60 Minutes deceptively manipulated a pre-election interview with Kamala Harris.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
25 July 2025
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The Dershowitz theory does not compute because the government invariably manipulates projections about future harm for ulterior partisan or personal motives.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
24 July 2025
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Gibson was also convicted of two counts of trafficking a person, pimping, pandering, keeping a place of prostitution, battery, possession of a firearm during commission of felony and other crimes, Fulton County media relations director Pallavi Bailey said.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
22 July 2025
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Now, Townsend is being held without bail, facing charges of trafficking the girl through coercion, as well as pandering and pimping.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
23 May 2025
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“Milk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/milk. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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