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cog

noun as in main part of device

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Without some help from Washington, there’s no way that number doesn’t continue to climb — right as those same workers are crucial cogs to vaccine distribution.

From Time

In a sign of the times, “Instagram editor” is now an official title at The Washington Post and a key cog in the newspaper publisher’s subscription business.

From Digiday

How well they fit in and make that transition from startup to big company cog, will go a long way in determining the success of this transaction in the long run.

Where you can literally see the cogs turning and they get to a position, or they come up with an explanation.

From Ozy

On Android, from Settings go to Accessibility and Text-to-speech output, then tap the cog next to Preferred engine and choose Install voice data.

A poor cog in the machine, she seemed to feel no more disgrace than a blood-diamond miner.

You might be a cog at a trading desk, compensated with nothing but money.

The apples are heaped on all sides, and are first crushed between wooden cog-wheels and caught in tubs.

Nay,” returned Mr. Archer with a smile, “no man can put complete reliance in blind fate; he must still cog the dice.

Each one is a cog in the vast organization and one slip may disrupt the whole arrangement.

Back in the East, things have been settled for so long that a man's only a cog in a machine.

Here, though, was evidence either that the War Lord was running out of metal or that his system had slipped a cog.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cog, such as: prong, cogwheel, differential, fang, gear, and pinion.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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