as in to use
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 milk
Price The cost of a milking robot can be several hundred thousand dollars, plus an additional $5,000 to $10,000 per year in operating costs.
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Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Developers offset that long payback period by milking federal green energy tax credits, which can amount to 40% of total capital invested and can be claimed almost immediately to offset taxable income.
—Christopher Helman, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Boys would milk and feed the goats and cows, and the girls helped prepare meals and washed dishes and clothes with well water.
—Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
Except the Lakers surprisingly didn’t milk it, and actually enabled it when relatively few people were watching.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2025
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Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Developers offset that long payback period by milking federal green energy tax credits, which can amount to 40% of total capital invested and can be claimed almost immediately to offset taxable income.
—Christopher Helman, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Boys would milk and feed the goats and cows, and the girls helped prepare meals and washed dishes and clothes with well water.
—Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
Except the Lakers surprisingly didn’t milk it, and actually enabled it when relatively few people were watching.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for milk
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The initiative draws water from the L.A. River in downtown L.A., cleans it and uses it to irrigate Los Angeles State Historic Park.—
Lucy Handley,
CNBC,
1 June 2025
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In 2024, Summers performed an Off-Broadway show about his life titled The Life and Slimes of Marc Summers, which used Double Dare to tell his life story.—
Victoria Edel,
People.com,
31 May 2025
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Our own threat research labs (CTRL) revealed five trends defining how bad actors will further exploit AI to advance their malicious intentions.—
Etay Maor,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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Updates often include important security patches that fix vulnerabilities hackers might try to exploit.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
22 May 2025
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The bill was named after Trey Carlock, a Dallas native who died by suicide in 2019 at the age of 28 after being abused by a Missouri summer camp director.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 May 2025
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Two tribal nations filed a lawsuit saying that the federal government used the trust fund money of tribes to pay for boarding schools where generations of Native children were systematically abused.—
Graham Lee Brewer,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
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Lennar is well positioned to capitalize on this trend, leveraging its extensive land inventory and efficient construction processes.—
Joe Cornell,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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Relations have only worsened in recent years, as Beijing has leveraged its budding economic and military power to ramp up pressure on its neighbor.—
ELY RATNER,
Foreign Affairs,
27 May 2025
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All platforms manipulate users to keep them scrolling.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
23 May 2025
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Attackers can design prompts that insert malicious instructions through seemingly innocent prompts, manipulate the model to reset its understanding of its role or subtly influence the model's output by feeding misleading information or context.—
Etay Maor,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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At the Willow Street property, officers arrested Bili Ruan, 50, of San Jose, on suspicion of pimping, Garibay said.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
11 Apr. 2025
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Another one let her cocaine-dealing thug son use her car before the kid went to federal prison for pimping.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
22 Mar. 2025
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“Milk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/milk. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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