Thesaurus results for MILKED

milked

verb

past tense of milk

as in exploited

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 milked Over the weekend, a supremely happy-seeming Dudamel, before heading to the New York Philharmonic in a couple weeks, milked the thanks in a back-to-the-Bowl, four-night blowout. — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 26 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 In a slower season, something like Luke’s departure would have been milked for at least a whole episode, if not more. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 28 July 2026 The walls had a nominal utility as fences for the dairy herd that was milked in the great white cow barn, but this was only ever a Gilded Age fantasy of the rustic idyll. — Matt Seaton, The Atlantic, 19 July 2026 But elsewhere, the film’s sporadic, accidental humor comes to its rescue — a scene involving a cow that clearly doesn’t want to be milked especially comes to mind. — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 20 May 2026 Growing up on a farm in Wabasha, Minnesota, one of 18 children, Bea milked cows and attended a one-room schoolhouse during the great depression. — Irene Gonzalez, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026 Monster has, itself, been the target of criticism from people like the Menendezes and the families of Dahmer’s victims, who feel their traumas have been milked for sensation rather than sublimated into high art. — Judy Berman, Time, 6 Oct. 2025 That’s when cows need to be milked next; if no one’s there, a cow could start to leak milk, to develop an infection. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025

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That imbalance, if exploited with sufficient force, would produce concessions on trade flows, investment, and the rules governing global competition.

— JONAS NAHM, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026
Defensively, Chelsea ruthlessly exploited loose marking and errors, and the scoreline could have been even more painful without some fine saves by goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce.

— Cerys Jones, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of exploited

Verb

Aluminum targets tougher battery demands The coated aluminum can be used for battery enclosures and casings, where corrosion protection can help improve component durability.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026
The disclosure on Thursday, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, came as Anthropic published a new set of data that showed a rapid increase in how much the lab used AI to develop its new models.

— Cristina Criddle, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of used

Verb

That body, established in 2017 in response to the crimes of Larry Nassar, the Michigan physician who serially abused young gymnasts, can investigate misconduct, including nonsexual misconduct, in any Olympic sport.

— Ian Parker, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Two other people claimed to have been abused by the artist during their childhood, according to Libération, but are also not included in the case headed to trial because the incidents took place too far in the past.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of abused

Verb

Dimensions 8 and 24 harbor special symmetries that the researchers leveraged to cram them with spheres.

— Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
According to the former trade officials who wrote the brief to the CIT, however, the trade statute was never intended to be leveraged this way.

— Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of leveraged

Verb

While companies can license those characters for interactive experiences — one hypothetical Thomson offered was a Waymo with the voice of Prime — those can’t be manipulated in the way many unauthorized clips of Hasbro characters have been.

— Corbin Bolies, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
One potential reason floated to Semafor by market participants is that compute futures could be manipulated to show a sharp drop in the cost of older chips, which might destabilize AI stocks and debt markets.

— Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026