- present participle of milk.
milking
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Alas, in these days of milking dormant franchises for every drop of ichor, a simple explanation isn’t enough.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
A business model built around milking the very richest customers has turned the Italian brand into Europe’s most profitable and valuable automaker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
His family runs a 320-strong dairy herd, milking three times a day.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The cows like it too, it seems, and crucially, they linger in the milking parlour, clearly cool and relaxed.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
But when we slunk in from milking, Dad was at his place at the kitchen table with the weekly newspaper, The Parke County Courier, open before him.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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