milk

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Recent Examples of milk Host Jimmy Kimmel milked the moment, delaying confirming that their answer was correct for a very tense minute. Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025 Whether those people are sickened by grief and rage into a kind of temporary insanity, genuine lunatics, hustlers looking to milk a little more engagement or some combination of the three doesn’t really matter. Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 12 Sep. 2025 She was instructed to eventually milk them for money. Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 Most teams walked the ball upcourt on almost every possession and rarely, if ever, looked to create pace while milking the shot clock and playing slowdown basketball. Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for milk
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Verb
  • The team used human stem cells to create three-dimensional, embryo-like structures that replicate early human development, including the formation of blood stem cells.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
  • This watch guide was created using technology provided by Data Skrive.
    Data Skrive, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In theory, Slot’s tactical out-of-possession shuffle to a staggered 4-3-3 should help Liverpool to defend on their right flank, but the ease with which Chelsea exploited the space was a culmination of weeks of warning signs.
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • What figures such as Tate, Caz, Maalouf, and others are doing is exploiting civil instability and installing themselves as truth-tellers in a society where experts can’t be trusted.
    T. M. Brown, New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Why this threat matters The Deep Research agent was designed to perform multistep research and summarize online data, but its wide access to third-party apps like Gmail, Google Drive and Dropbox also opened the door to abuse.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • He was hit with a massive $50,000 fine for verbally abusing officials back in 2023, and he was slapped with a $14,000 fine for a violent gesture during a game against the Buffalo Bills last season.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • For leagues, the ability to leverage Reddit’s reputation to appear more frequently in search results or chatbot readouts should be seen as a nice bonus, Rosen said, rather than the main driver behind their on-platform strategy.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The hope for gold-producing nations like Ghana is to responsibly leverage this bountiful natural resource without falling prey to environmental degradation and civil strife.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Because there’s no route concept here, no trying to manipulate a defense with a quarterback’s eyes, or with misdirection, or by flooding a zone.
    David Aldridge, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • There’s been no improvement in their real economy despite a stock market that seems manipulated higher, a la 2016.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • First there’s the obvious: Suga Free’s flows, cascading like water over desert rock in the Inland Empire; the cartoon anecdotes from a life spent pimping in Pomona; the most varied and virtuosic group of DJ Quik beats ever assembled.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 30 Sep. 2025
  • That deal dropped three charges of human trafficking and five additional counts of pimping from his case.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Milk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/milk. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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