milked

past tense of milk

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of milked 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 Games don’t feel milked, overanalyzed, or — as can often be the case with Generation Kickstarter — overtly romanticized. Matt Gardner, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025 For a while, the Klussendorfs milked their cows on a neighboring farm that had been empty for years. Rick Barrett, jsonline.com, 11 Aug. 2025 But strangely, when the researchers milked the well cows with contaminated equipment—the way the virus was assumed to be spreading on farms—the healthy cows did not fall ill. Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for milked
Verb
  • For example, Makris is concerned that the Nottinghamshire Police in the UK have begun testing a Unitree Go2, which can be exploited by UniPwn.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The vulnerability can be exploited by low-privileged users to create a denial-of-service attack or by higher-privileged users to execute code that runs with unfettered root privileges.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Photos used in this column were made possible by the Barry Bingham Jr.
    Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As that installment blew up in fall 2024, a new generation of viewers discovered the Menendezes’ story, including their claims that their parents, whom they were convicted of killing, had abused them.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Epstein’s former girlfriend, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, was convicted in 2021 of helping lure teenage girls to be abused by him.
    Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Based in Arizona, Blair and Cardiff have leveraged the state’s entrepreneurial ecosystem to fuel their growth.
    Wyles Daniel, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Kimmel’s return demonstrated average Americans do still have power, when leveraged together.
    Sarah Stankorb, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The first one played short caught Newcastle by surprise and manipulated their zonal defenders.
    Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • China has manipulated the market by suppressing prices to drive Western competition from the market, said Ryan Castilloux, founder of Adamas Intelligence, a critical mineral market research firm.
    Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025

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“Milked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/milked. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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