cog
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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
In 1989 he became not just a Lion in Australia but a Test Lion, a key cog in Ian McGeechan's side as they came from 1-0 down in the series to win 2-1.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
For nearly two decades, he had been the definition of sports anonymity—an interchangeable cog turning in the unforgiving machine that is professional baseball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Her look evolves from a worn-out cog to a biker-like granny who’d seem natural riding on the back of Dennis Hopper’s hog.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
The cog went up and down, bucking more wildly than any horse he’d ever ridden, lifting with each wave before sliding down into the troughs between, jarring him to the bones.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
The teeth of the cogged wheel are usually made the thickest, so as to somewhat equalise the strength of the teeth on the two wheels.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
The sea was their gaming table and it was their ill luck if the dice were cogged.
From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Schoonover, Frank Earle
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 Austin, Mary Hunter
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 Shakespeare, William
The spirit of the cogging dicers of Whitefriars took possession of the grave Senators of the City, Wardens of Trades, Deputies, Aldermen.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
"Pshaw!" answered Hayston, who perfectly knew and thoroughly despised the character of this man, "none of your cogging gibberish; tell me truly, are you at liberty and in safety?"
From The Bride of Lammermoor by Scott, Walter, Sir
Our cogging rolls are 48 in. diameter, and the roughing and finishing rolls are 30 in. diameter.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883 by Various
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