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 Buffaloes have to be milked regardless of whether dairies are operating, while production rules require that their milk be turned into mozzarella within 60 hours. — Giada Zampano, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026 There’s no reason why the Bills shouldn’t have milked the clock for two plays and kicked the field goal with about 40 seconds left. — Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026 But most observers recognize that those channels will be milked for cash, with wide cuts expected as the company seeks to harvest the revenue from carriage fees and redistribute to other priorities, like streaming, and paying down that pesky debt. — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026 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 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for milked

Verb

This notorious commercial entity, a precursor of the global corporations of today and big enough to command its own army, ruthlessly exploited foreign resources, human and material.

— Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
That signal can be aggregated, correlated, and exploited by hostile foreign intelligence services to anticipate our movements, targets, and timing.

— Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of exploited

Verb

Fittingly, the hotel takes great care to disrupt its surroundings as little as possible; a geothermal well services the property’s heating and cooling, and plants that draw mosquito-eating birds are used in place of pesticides.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Oct. 2026
The team then used in-situ polymerization to turn the mixture into a more robust polymer matrix.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026

Definition of used

Verb

The act also has been sorely abused and used as a tool to stop projects, particularly housing.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
In 2023, the Illinois attorney general released a detailed report that identified 451 Catholic priests and religious brothers who the investigation found had abused at least 1,997 children across the state’s six Catholic dioceses.

— Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of abused

Verb

Plus, the brand’s expansive archive is something to be leveraged, not left aside.

— Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2026
Buffered and leveraged ETFs may have a place in certain strategies, but they are rarely substitutes for a thoughtful long-term allocation.

— Daniel Kern, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026