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 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 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

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Verb

This follows an incident where OpenAI models autonomously exploited system flaws, showcasing advanced capabilities.

— Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
But instead, many Africans were further exploited and bequeathed with debt that continues to this day.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 July 2026

Definition of exploited

Verb

Privacy can restore you when it is chosen, not used as a hiding place.

— Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 July 2026
Rule 10 - The Banana Ball challenge rule Each manager gets one challenge per game that can be used at any moment — and the challenge is kept if the manager was correct.

— Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 27 July 2026

Definition of used

Verb

On the receiving end, Hugging Face reported that a malicious dataset abused two code execution paths in its processing pipeline - a remote-code loader and a template injection in a dataset configuration.

— Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
Alice notes that the women were not allowed to bathe or even eat every day; the women were captives, treated like animals, and the men who abused them never faced any consequences.

— Erin Qualey, Vulture, 27 July 2026

Definition of abused

Verb

The intrinsic value of each partner entity is embedded within the NYC Reads Neighborhood Initiative and was leveraged to elevate the whole.

— Read Alliance, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
But with knowledge that the clock was running down on the strategy, the administration has, in recent months, embarked on a pathway toward more durable duties using trade authorities that the president has leveraged in the past.

— Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 22 July 2026