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 two timber companies own some of the remaining forest the bird uses or might use for habitat, according to the lawsuit, and do not yet have federal Habitat Conservation Plans that would lay out protections for the bird as logging occurs.

— Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 31 July 2026
The state government uses it to buffer state finances when oil prices drop below levels that allow Alaska to generate surplus earnings.

— Patrick J. Schena, The Conversation, 30 July 2026

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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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Infantino leverages smaller federations' votes, who benefit greatly, to counter opposition from powerful confederations like UEFA, intensifying a power struggle within global football.

— Clemente Lisi, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
The flagship feature is Siri AI, a new approach to Siri that in many cases leverages large language models without having to kick requests to a third party.

— Samuel Axon, ArsTechnica, 27 July 2026