Thesaurus results for MILK

milk

verb

Definition of milk

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 The herder cared for Pantoja, keeping him warm with animal skins, teaching him to milk the goats, and how to hunt rabbits with a stick. — Laura Sharman, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026 Plant milks with lower protein content have a smaller impact on tea’s antioxidants than cow’s milk. — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 17 Aug. 2026 If so, why did the club get milked for nigh-on £10million to buy Jaissle out of his Al Ahli contract? — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026 The Milwaukee County Zoo is one of the only zoos in the country that keeps and milks dairy cows. — Joey Schamber, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for milk

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The Saudis have since used the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, which leads out of the Red Sea, for crude oil exports.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026
Leaders on this path are using AI to increase the capabilities of their marketing teams and expand what talented people can accomplish.

— George Couris, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of use

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That could be an area González looks to exploit Sunday, using the pace and creativity of Miami’s attacking stars to strike before San Diego can reorganize defensively.

— Tyler Carmona, Miami Herald, 19 Sep. 2026
The document, which was highly classified and written in Arabic, suggested that Hamas was planning to exploit the hostage families’ protests to fracture Israeli society.

— Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of exploit

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Look what women can do when they’re not abused, oppressed, and angry about being abused and oppressed!

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2026
Ultimately, the show attempts to draw a parallel between Lizzie Borden and Aileen Wuornos, portraying them as two women abused and mistreated by society who dared to fight back.

— Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of abuse

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This sort of use of AI is not unique to Iran, nor to the way adversaries have been leveraging cyber capabilities for military purposes and to gain greater situational awareness, Shah and others said.

— Lauren Fichten, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
The challenge is making the economics of working locally in Canada, including leveraging currency savings and tax credits, to allow for international exploitation.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of leverage

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Posters are editing and manipulating the recordings to distort their content.

— Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
But even if the risks are merely bad—like hacking into a single financial institution or hospital, manipulating the stock market, or taking out an electrical grid—suing a company after the fact won’t really provide the outcome society wants.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of manipulate

Verb

The three were charged with crimes including pimping and pandering, money laundering, and tax and payroll fraud, the district attorney’s office said.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
The Bronx gunman wanted for killing an ex-con who had served time for pimping out girls returned to the crime scene two days later and was busted, police said Wednesday.

— Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 16 Sep. 2026

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