milked

past tense of milk

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of milked 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
  • Critics warn that such emotional connections could be exploited commercially, turning intimacy into a product.
    Staff, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Google has issued a critical warning for all Android users, confirming that two separate vulnerabilities have been exploited in the wild.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Video refereeing was used 39 times on the first day of the season, with one red card being corrected and three goals disallowed for offside.
    Laia Cervelló Herrero, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The Broncos used big play after big play to amass a silly-sounding 637 yards of offense and consistently thrill the Albertsons Stadium crowd of 32,887 — officially the ninth home sellout in a row.
    Jim Keyser, Idaho Statesman, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The court ruled that Particle plausibly alleged Epic abused its dominance in electronic health records to undermine competition in the payer platform market so that those claims will move forward into discovery.
    David Chou, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The 7-year-old detailed abuse by her father and stepmother, whose 6-year-old daughter was also allegedly being abused, according to the court documents.
    Mike Stunson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • His firm leveraged these credits as well as presales and distribution rights in pursuit of profit.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
  • For this expression, Buzzard’s Roost leveraged its proprietary double oak approach to craft a bourbon that pairs perfectly with both a fine cigar and as an exceptional stand-alone pour.
    Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Trump claimed without evidence that McEntarfer had manipulated statistics for political reasons.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • By the end of the episode, Isaac is dead, Nibs has had part of her memory wiped, and Slightly has been manipulated by Morrow into letting one of the face-huggers turn Arthur into a Xenomorph incubator.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Milked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/milked. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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