cogs
Example Sentences
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The risk, he said, is that humans will be reduced “to mere cogs in a system driven toward ever greater efficiency.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
You can see the improvisational cogs turning in real time.
From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026
Ships like these are allegedly cogs in a maritime smuggling network known as the "shadow fleet", skirting sanctions by passing themselves off as cargo vessels on legitimate business.
From Barron's • Dec. 2, 2025
During one magnetic monologue, where Cupp pieces the clues together to whom she believes is the killer, we see all the cogs of her intelligence and humor turning swiftly.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2025
It growled again, a strange rasping combination of electrical sizzle, a frying sound, a scraping of metal, a turning of cogs that seemed rusty and ancient with suspicion.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
