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
First, folks milk venom from snakes by massaging their venom glands into glass containers.
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Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2025
Helping a young farmer get started Forty miles north of Medford, in Catawba, Linda Ceylor has a dairy farm milking 40 cows that are also kept on pasture.
—Rick Barrett, jsonline.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Few, if any, Marylanders are illegally milking the system, and now, those that truly need help will be left behind.
—Johnny Olszewski, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2025
But strangely, when the researchers milked the well cows with contaminated equipment—the way the virus was assumed to be spreading on farms—the healthy cows did not fall ill.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2025
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Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2025
Helping a young farmer get started Forty miles north of Medford, in Catawba, Linda Ceylor has a dairy farm milking 40 cows that are also kept on pasture.
—Rick Barrett, jsonline.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Few, if any, Marylanders are illegally milking the system, and now, those that truly need help will be left behind.
—Johnny Olszewski, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2025
But strangely, when the researchers milked the well cows with contaminated equipment—the way the virus was assumed to be spreading on farms—the healthy cows did not fall ill.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2025
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Photonic quantum computing is a quantum computation approach that uses photons—particles of light—as qubits.—
Gil Press,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Zoryve has a unique active ingredient—roflumilast, an enzyme inhibitor that’s being used for the first time in a topical medication.—
Megan McIntyre,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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The cycle from discovery to exploit used to be measured in weeks, even months.—
Tony Bradley,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Achane exploited both players at different times, and became a problem the Patriots never solved.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
16 Sep. 2025
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More importantly, Penske also describes this dynamic as antitrust behavior from a company abusing what the federal government has already described as Google’s monopoly status in the realm of Internet search.—
Andy Meek,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The biggest Flock controversy centers on allegations that law enforcement has abused the company’s surveillance network to target women, immigrants, and people engaging in legal activity outside their home states.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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As well as job displacement, AI risks deepening wealth inequality—concentrating the gains among those who own or are able to leverage its abilities, while throwing the remainder into the same basket of the formerly employable unemployed.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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And unlike a sovereign fund or a city-state, New York is doing it at urban scale, leveraging the density of industries, talent, and capital that only a global city can provide.—
Sindhya Valloppillil,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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In this approach, quantum information is encoded in various properties of photons, and computation is performed by manipulating these photonic states using optical components.—
Gil Press,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Tahoe is obviously getting more aggressive with icon-shape enforcement, up to and including automatically manipulating them and sentencing them to icon jail.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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Jamon Ward, 33, was arrested last month on charges of human trafficking, pimping, trafficking a minor and pandering, court records show.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
8 Sep. 2025
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In Rolling Stone’s year-end issue for 1990, the first page had loads of stars giving their summary of the year, mostly pimping their latest career highlights.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
23 July 2025
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“Milk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/milk. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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