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All the while, Cook has milked the iPhone ecosystem for more revenue each year, selling apps, subscriptions and App Store ads, and squeezing bigger payments from Google.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

The NBC Sports IndyCar analyst and former bad boy driver has milked the feud ever since, using Instagram as his preferred platform.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 16, 2021

Such events are an underrated tool of diplomacy in Washington, where the British embassy has milked Downton Abbey at every opportunity.

From The Guardian • May 16, 2016

In the intervening years, Foster has milked his fame and indulged his fortune, becoming, first, a dissolute celebrity, and then a celebrated recluse.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2016

When he has milked the ewes, the giant lets each one of them have her lamb—to get, I suppose, what strippings it can, and beyond this what milk the ewe may yield during the night. 

From The Humour of Homer and Other Essays by Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander)