cog

“I hated being a cog in a wheel, just moving things around.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

But as a key cog in the Chargers’ defense who loves practice and training camp, the Chargers won’t feel quite complete on the field until Tuipulotu is practicing with his teammates again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 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

The Postal Service has been a key cog in Amazon’s shipping network, providing a significant portion of the so-called last-mile deliveries of packages to people’s homes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026

When he lowered the ship’s boats to tow them toward the nearest land, one sank and the men in the other cut the line and rowed off north, abandoning the cog and all their shipmates.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

It consists of a wooden frame containing cogged iron wheels of increasing powers.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

The mill was a mechanism of three vertical brass rollers, each approximately a foot in diameter, that were cogged together with teeth around their top and bottom.

From Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

I tugged the derrick inboard and recaptured the rope; cogged the winch, swung out, dropped hand over hand into the lane, and raced up it with all the terrors of the law at my heels.

From The Adventures of Harry Revel by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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

Such a system of cogging, such a system of fraud, such a system of prevarication, such a system of falsehood, never was, I believe, before exhibited in the world.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

I wonder if Santiago of Bressure be one of these cogging shirks.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux

I have been thus precise, because criticism is to me not "a game," nor admissive of cogging and falsification.

From Notes and Queries, Number 197, August 6, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell

Thy eyes are shut, thy tongue cannot be cogging; Nothing of profit rests at thy dispose.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw