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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of milk.

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Examples

  • They are interested only in what can be milked from the area in profits.

    Clear Channel wants more 2005

  • The Bedouin milked a mother camel and offered me the bowl.

    The Backside of War P. J. O'Rourke 2003

  • The Bedouin milked a mother camel and offered me the bowl.

    The Backside of War P. J. O'Rourke 2003

  • Reagen and at IKE were all dead fish who "milked" their offices as lame ducks!

    Rove: Palin's resignation lacks clear strategy 2009

  • Given the already high level of social security contributions, that shrinking labor pool cannot be "milked" much harder to maintain tax revenues, as they would lose the incentive to work.

    Germany's Labor Market Turnaround Klaus F. Zimmermann 2010

  • He steps out of an elevator and beholds before him a vast, seemingly limitless atrium, stacked row upon row with stainless steel racks containing human bodies being "milked" for their blood.

    Dan Persons: ReelzChannel: The Top Ten "Oh, Come On" Moments in Sci-Fi Movies 2010

  • Given the already high level of social security contributions, that shrinking labor pool cannot be "milked" much harder to maintain tax revenues, as they would lose the incentive to work.

    Germany's Labor Market Turnaround Klaus F. Zimmermann 2010

  • Given the already high level of social security contributions, that shrinking labor pool cannot be "milked" much harder to maintain tax revenues, as they would lose the incentive to work.

    Germany's Labor Market Turnaround Klaus F. Zimmermann 2010

  • Best to sell before potential suitors might start seeing too many reasons to doubt that the company's growth is sustainable, or that it's potential can be "milked" by a big media company to the extent they think they could.

    All Bets Are Off 2007

  • Given the choice of non-free with DRM, etc and free, I see only one choice for educators, and for the masses ignorant of how they are being controlled, "milked" or "shorn."

    join the Free Software Foundation Bill Kerr 2006

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