Thesaurus results for MILKS

milks

verb

present tense third-person singular of milk

as in uses

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 milks With venom and shrewd determination, Nicholson paints his character as a swaggering monster who milks every syllable of his dialogue with vitriolic relish. — Eric Farwell, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026 Cameron milks this awesome sequence for all its worth, and the adrenaline rush is palpable as those smoking weapons do their best to strike down creeping creatures until the last bullet fires. — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 27 Apr. 2026 Even better, many leave-in conditioners and hair milks not only boast hair-smoothing benefits, but also heat protection. — Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 1 Apr. 2026 Shortly after becoming husband and wife, Grace milks another loophole in the hide-and-seek rulebook and slays Titus, thereby sending the rest of the High Council to slaughter at the hands of their demonic overlord, Le Bail. — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 Mar. 2026 With Australia’s Queensland coast standing in the Amazon, Gormican skillfully milks the inherent humor in the situation while also not letting the horror aspects of the original film overtake this one, at least not enough to threaten a PG-13 rating. — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 23 Dec. 2025

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Verb

The Athletic’s player roles analysis uses nearly 40 metrics to analyse players across Europe’s top five leagues, identifying patterns that can help to bucket those who perform similarly in their style.

— Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
The research, published in Chem Circularity, explores a system based on calcium looping, a process that uses the same basic material—limestone—that is already central to cement manufacturing.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of uses

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Before more cameras appear, your community deserves clear answers about who can search the records, how long the data stays available and what happens when someone abuses access.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026
New York City’s child welfare agency routinely abuses its emergency power to take children from their parents without a court order, creating lifelong consequences for families, a new class-action lawsuit seeking to end the practice alleged Thursday.

— Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 28 May 2026

Definition of abuses

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Deed theft often exploits grief, financial distress, inheritance disputes and the limited resources of older homeowners.

— Landon Dais, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026
Russian ballistic attacks have risen fast in recent weeks, hitting the capital Kyiv particularly hard, as Moscow exploits Ukraine’s near-zero stocks of Patriot interceptor missiles.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of exploits

Verb

The result is a documentary that implicitly honors these incredible doctors, but more acutely leverages their plight to address the numbing exasperation that such an atrocity is designed to instill among otherwise good people.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2026
The innovative approach leverages the cell's natural immune surveillance system, where small fragments of internal proteins are displayed on the cell surface.

— William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026