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
After killing him, Arab raiders had stolen about a dozen cattle, including a fat milking cow.
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Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Using persuasive powers, Don describes how the prospect’s current ad agency intends to milk them for money while doing nothing to up their sales.
—Michael Ashley, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Really milk this moment, because everyone else in the scene is so frantic and trying to figure out what's going on.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 May 2025
Don’t forget the class switch, either; a triple-shot Combat Shotgun can milk armor after upgrades, and the Shredder is incredibly dependable for lower-risk encounters.
—Matt Gardner, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
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Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Using persuasive powers, Don describes how the prospect’s current ad agency intends to milk them for money while doing nothing to up their sales.
—Michael Ashley, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
Really milk this moment, because everyone else in the scene is so frantic and trying to figure out what's going on.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 May 2025
Don’t forget the class switch, either; a triple-shot Combat Shotgun can milk armor after upgrades, and the Shredder is incredibly dependable for lower-risk encounters.
—Matt Gardner, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for milk
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Athit Perawongmetha | Reuters China is devising more ways for foreign institutions to use the yuan, as international confidence in the U.S. dollar falters.—
Lee Ying Shan,Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
25 June 2025
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Allies may choose to avoid acquiring U.S.-made weaponry for fear that Washington or an American company might deny them permission to use it in a crisis—just as Musk denied Ukraine the ability to use his Starlink communications network to carry out an attack on Russian forces in Crimea in 2022.—
KORI SCHAKE,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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Pratt’s conviction kept him behind bars for 27 years, and the case haunted Cochran, who believed Pratt was innocent and who had made a mistake at trial that prosecutors skillfully exploited.—
Christopher Goffard,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2025
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The risk was leaving big spaces out wide that could be exploited in transition, by Juventus’ wing-backs especially.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
28 June 2025
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Federal employees widely abused the Biden administration‘s telework policies, according to an inspector general report released by the Office of Personnel Management on Friday.—
Haisten Willis,
The Washington Examiner,
20 June 2025
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In the procedural drama, Rodríguez brings to life a multi-layered and solemn character shaped by a traumatic childhood — abused within the foster care system, with no knowledge of his origins, and struggling with severe dyslexia.—
Veronica Villafañe,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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Mets could deal from strength Look for the New York Mets to again leverage their pitching-rich farm system.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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Google is using YouTube videos to train its AI models, CNBC reported , showing how tech giants are leveraging their own platforms to gain model-building advantages.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
20 June 2025
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Our Senate and representatives are all manipulating their own power rather than running the country.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
18 June 2025
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But the lesson of the ’74 Act is clear: Absent congressional will, lawmakers inevitably will find ways to manipulate their own rules to make deficits even worse.—
Howard Gleckman,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Chen was arrested on suspicion of operating a house of ill fame, pimping and pandering, according to police records.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
16 June 2025
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Officers then arrested Townsend on suspicion of 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 2 Jul. 2025.
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