milked

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But the latter drew their “moral force from the documented legacy of evil, a historical wound that was milked for power in the decades that followed.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 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

He said his cows are meticulously cleaned before they are milked.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2024

His herd of 400 cows are milked three times a day on behalf of a major milk supplier and his 18,000 hens lay eggs for a leading supermarket.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2024

Maybe they’d have enough music to entertain them while they drove fourteen or fifteen miles home and unharnessed in the dark and fed the stock and milked.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner