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milk

verb

Definition of milk

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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 In Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, farmer Mindy Dean, 50, and her family will be milking their goats Saturday and maybe taking in some local fireworks. — ABC News, 2 July 2026 Visitors can salsa dance in Puerto Rico, milk a mechanical cow in Michigan, walk through an orange-scented citrus grove in Florida, practice their lasso skills in Wyoming, pick up Mardi Gras beads in Louisiana, send a postcard from West Virginia and peruse a Waffle House menu in Georgia. — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 26 June 2026 Visitors would be able to milk goats and learn to make cheese, soap and lotion. — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026 Hell, the much more traditional sequel is frequently a lazy cash grab, an attempt to recapture lighting in a bottle or simply milk a few additional bucks out of audiences looking for a risk-free night out. — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 24 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for milk

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The Triglav Lodge, Slovenia’s highest-altitude guest hut at an elevation of 2,515 meters (8,251 feet), is using paper plates this summer to save water on dishes.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
Ukraine has been relatively successful at intercepting the massive numbers of drones that Russia uses in its large-scale attacks.

— Kosta Gak, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2026

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Motor vehicle theft, which had spiked in 2022 and 2023 following a social media challenge that helped people exploit a manufacturing issue in some models of Kia and Hyundai vehicles, dropped by almost 23% to the lowest levels in more than 20 years.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
As noted by the NCSC, the vulnerability is being exploited when port 5900 is exposed to the Internet.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2026

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Schmieder advocates for leveraging biotechnology to create regenerative, resilient cities that partner with nature, rather than working against it.

— John Werner, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Grover added that Nuvation Bio will likely be able to accelerate revenue growth by leveraging its existing client base, particularly if taletrectinib proves to be effective as a first-line treatment for relatively long periods of time.

— Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2026

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Artificial intelligence has enabled the rapid rise of such tools, capable of digitally manipulating photos with little effort.

— Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
In a country where current and former governors command massive grassroots support and are often accused of working with local electoral officials to manipulate election results, analysts say the defections could work in Tinubu’s favor.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of manipulate

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Lake recalled Manson allegedly pimping her and the other women and girls in his cult to other adult men and brutally sodomizing her.

— Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026
Dennis, 32, was sentenced to six years in the Colorado Department of Corrections for the pimping charge, court records show.

— Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 4 June 2026

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