- present participle of milk.
Example Sentences
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“He’s a Google insider milking Polymarket for quick money,” Jeong, a blockchain engineer, wrote on X. “It’s one of the wildest things I’ve seen on the platform.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Podcasting can be a great business if you’re good at it, but I’m not sure anyone has ever been this adept at milking shareholder value out of a pair of mics.
From Slate • Apr. 7, 2026
"If we haven't got good quality first-cut silage in then the cows are not going to be milking and that's going to have an impact on the profits," he added.
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026
And they soon embraced mechanized milking and the feedlot model to up their yield.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026
Fletching arrows, milking goats, gathering firewood, mucking out our stables ... the work is endless.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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