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The following season, Ramsdale was a vital cog in Arsenal's spine as they launched a surprise title challenge, only to be outdone by an imperious Manchester City side.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Muse is another major cog in the return-on-investment engine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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

This God created a world that ran like clockwork, with every plant, animal, and creature a cog in the great machine.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

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 was about a month after this that I began to find myself pitted against Miss Dean in a struggle for some dimly grasped advantage, with the dice cogged against me.

From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin

The cards had been stacked; the dice were cogged.

From The Moonlit Way by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

I cogged the dice for myself, but it was the Destinies who threw them!

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller

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

In pride, deceit, prating, lying, cogging, coyness, spite, hate, sir.

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

The hammered billets are again slowly heated and receive a second hammering, known as "cogging."

From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Fred H. (Fred Herbert) Colvin

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

That cogging won't do, my good Friend, that won't do.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Montague Summers