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
Except the Lakers surprisingly didn’t milk it, and actually enabled it when relatively few people were watching.
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Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2025
Go out to a cattle ranch and learn how to milk a cow.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2025
Work out the kinks, dial in the operation, and learn how to milk the technology for all its worth.
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—Arleo Dordar, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Work out the kinks, dial in the operation, and learn how to milk the technology for all its worth.
—Arleo Dordar, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
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Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2025
Go out to a cattle ranch and learn how to milk a cow.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 20 Mar. 2025
Work out the kinks, dial in the operation, and learn how to milk the technology for all its worth.
5.
—Arleo Dordar, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Work out the kinks, dial in the operation, and learn how to milk the technology for all its worth.
—Arleo Dordar, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for milk
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Mangione handed arriving officers a fake New Jersey ID that was used at the New York City hostel days earlier and was subsequently arrested.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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Bear with me because there's a great deal of nuance here that is easy to miss among today's more impassioned reactions to people using AI as a blunt instrument of creating mediocrity.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
25 Apr. 2025
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Next-Gen Anti-Ransomware Protection—Preemptive And Resilient Security Despite AV and EDR advancements, modern ransomware tactics—including encryption bypass and stealthy execution—continue to exploit gaps in endpoint defenses.—
Bob Kruse,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Second, the chairman has exploited the commission's powers to undermine the very First Amendment rights it is supposed to uphold.—
Mohammed Soliman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Apr. 2025
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After the show premiered, actress Amber Dixon Brenner alleged in a lawsuit that Akil’s husband, Salim, had abused her over the course of their previously unknown, decade-long extramarital affair.—
Jazmine Hughes,
Vulture,
2 May 2025
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In an August 2020 filing, Sura, said Abrego Garcia had kicked and slapped her, as well as verbally abused her.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 May 2025
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Scammers are becoming increasingly sophisticated, leveraging advanced tools like generative AI to con unsuspecting victims.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
1 May 2025
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Television Academy Honors recognizes programs and their producers who have leveraged the power of television to advance social change.—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
1 May 2025
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The book’s vivid digital art, collaged from her own photographs and manipulated in Photoshop, helped children connect with science and nature in new ways.—
Kaitlyn Gomez,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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Jewish Voice for Peace is an extremist group that manipulates the Jewish identity of some of its members to support terror, disrupt public life, and undermine the very essence of Jewish faith, identity and tradition.—
Chai Posner,
Baltimore Sun,
30 Apr. 2025
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At the Willow Street property, officers arrested Bili Ruan, 50, of San Jose, on suspicion of pimping, Garibay said.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
11 Apr. 2025
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Another one let her cocaine-dealing thug son use her car before the kid went to federal prison for pimping.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
22 Mar. 2025
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“Milk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/milk. Accessed 6 May. 2025.
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