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 As part of the annual rookie luncheon, the American Dairy Association — which also supplies the traditional winner’s bottle of milk for post-race celebration consumption — brings a cow to be milked by the debutants. —

Luke Smith, New York Times, 22 May 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 Netflix has milked so much out of that now-instantly recognizable sound. —

Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025 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 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

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For Black Americans, whose bodies have too often been exploited throughout history, this technology is not merely another digital inconvenience.

— Richard Fowler, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
Apple has updated its Beats Studio Buds wireless earbuds to patch a high-severity vulnerability that could be exploited by nearby hackers to eavesdrop on users.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 18 June 2026