cog

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

"At a men's game, you feel like you're just a cog," says Donna Jones, a season ticket-holder at London City Lionesses.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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

But to Mulch, each cog had a distinctive signature and when a ratchet caught, it was so loud as to be deafening.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

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

But the Trade Unions were another matter, and never a billet-creating measure came before Parliament but he strove vehemently to have its wheels cogged in with those of the existing Trade Union machine.

From A Crooked Mile by Oliver [pseud.] Onions

A cogged wheel is so mounted that a ray of light passes between two of the teeth and is reflected back from a mirror.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson

The instrument is then set vertical, by a spirit-level on the cogged driving-wheel, and the four pairs of set screws on the clamp-head embracing the cascabel.

From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

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

Nay, nay, I do beseech you leave your cogging, what they are, they are, they serve me without Spectacles I thank 'em.

From The Scornful Lady by John Fletcher

But I have spied a knave, my Lady Lucre's cogging man.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt

Why, Robin Goodfellow is this same cogging, pettifogging, crackropes, calf-skin companion.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various