cog

Example Sentences

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Coinbase has made stablecoins a key cog in its business, in part to help make its revenue less correlated to crypto-price volatility.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

“I do think Google’s self-sufficiency should command a premium relative to the others that could be adversely impacted by one cog in the wheel,” Treacy said, referring to Google’s proprietary tensor processing units.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026

The ghost has broken the laws of nature but she’s still treated like a cog in the system.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

But he's a symptom of it, a failing cog in a malfunctioning machine.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2025

Among the masts of countless fishing boats, he spied a Tyroshi trading galley off-loading beside a lumbering Ibbenese cog with her black-tarred hull.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin