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[milk] / mɪlk /




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Sweet potatoes and carrots can take it, and the coconut milk mellows everything considerably.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Lactoferrin is an immune protein present in almost every body fluid except blood, including breast milk, tears, saliva, snot, and intestinal mucus.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Khadijah had insisted on nursing their newborn Aziza with her own breast milk, but Latif discovers that only a few pouches remain in the fridge and formula makes his baby sick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

At Meituan’s headquarters, Cheng ordered pearl milk tea on her phone, delivered by drone, before the company’s chairman, Wang Xing, presented her with the kangaroo mascot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

“What if I want a pineapple milk shake?”

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

Researchers examined a wide range of products commonly available to UK shoppers, including burgers, vegetarian chicken pieces, vegan sausages, and oat, almond and soy-based milks.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

Don’t have a lot, and please don’t put milks and stuff in it.”

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 20, 2026

Among the healthier options are whole-grain breads, some soy and almond milks and some plant-based meat alternatives, said Maya Vadiveloo, associate professor of nutrition at the University of Rhode Island.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

When it comes to making a fiber-rich cup of joe, plant-based milks are a great addition, says Nethra Rajendran, Beverage Experience Developer, Oatly North America.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026

A young Dinka boy milks a cow near his home in Sudan.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau

Over the weekend, a supremely happy-seeming Dudamel, before heading to the New York Philharmonic in a couple weeks, milked the thanks in a back-to-the-Bowl, four-night blowout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Some of them—say, Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino’s 2012 motorcycle crash with a female employee–even get milked for comic relief.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025

"We are trying to create an economically viable climate-neutral system," said Padraig Walsh, project manager at Farm Zero C, where 250 cows are milked.

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2025

Meanwhile, the males, which are six to seven times more toxic than the females, are used for the antivenom programme and milked every two weeks, Emma explains.

From BBC ● May 16, 2025

Her grandfather, Dyedka, sat in the barn on a stool and milked a goat.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

"It is a lot different - it's rigid - you start milking in the morning, you have to milk in the evening. There's not as much flexibility," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Eager to keep showing me his farm’s serious approach to pathogens, McAfee ushered me into his truck to see the milking of his cows.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

“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

“But he said no cows. He might have been traumatized by the early mornings and milking twice a day.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026

Running a farm is terrible hard work—plowing and hoeing and milking cows and such and being out in the fields all by yourself with nobody to talk to all day long.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier




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