cog
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Now Keidel - just like Mika Baur, Bambase Conte, Max Rosenfelder, Philipp Treu, and Vitaly Janelt - has the chance to show he could be a valuable cog in the machine.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
When mediocrity is the core objective of an extremely powerful company like this one, success hinges on turning the once-discerning viewer into a machine cog as mindless as one of Netflix’s baffling originals.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Basically, they wanted just another cog in the machine to help clear a path to a third consecutive World Series championship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
The enormous cash injection comes as Asia's fourth-largest economy rides high on a global AI boom -- with South Korean memory chipmakers emerging as a crucial cog in the fast-moving industry.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
When the wheel turned, the third cog wheel pushed the bellows up and down, and I had a forge.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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The battery operated Space Express has cogged wheels and can travel vertically up or upside down on a cogged track.
From Nature ● Dec. 17, 2018
And then there's the marvellous Druzhba sanatorium by the sea at Yalta, a stack of cogged carousels rising out of a bank of trees, each notch a living space.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2011
In the inside of the box under the dog is a little cogged wheel, which, when the handle is turned, rubs against pieces of metal and produces the musical sounds.
From Chatterbox, 1905. by Various
A cogged or corked or caulked joint is made by cutting out only parts of the notch on the lower piece, leaving a "cog" uncut.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
There followed the keen, quick rattling of a cogged wheel and a rush of people who seemed insufficiently impressed by the magnitude of the event.
From Ewing\'s Lady by Harry Leon Wilson
A new coreless direct drive motor should eliminate the minor cogging issue some SL-1200 turntables experienced — tiny vibrations that can cause rotation irregularities.
From The Verge ● Jan. 7, 2019
I will be hang'd, if some eternall Villaine, Some busie and insinuating Rogue, Some cogging, cozening Slaue, to get some Office, Haue not deuis'd this Slander: I will be hang'd else Iago.
From Othello by William Shakespeare
The spirit of the cogging dicers of Whitefriars took possession of the grave Senators of the City, Wardens of Trades, Deputies, Aldermen.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
I haue matter in my head against you and your cogging companions, Pistoll and Nym.
From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover
"Pshaw!" answered Hayston, who perfectly knew and thoroughly despised the character of this man, "none of your cogging gibberish; tell me truly, are you at liberty and in safety?"
From The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott
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