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