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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

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

The Giants left well enough alone because Kent was an essential cog in their lineup, the story died down and he missed only the first four regular-season games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 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

On the cog, alas, everyone was just who they appeared to be, no one was particularly congenial, and only the red priest was interesting.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

Round the loaf there were indentations, like a cogged wheel, such as the millwright made.

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies

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

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

I have been thus precise, because criticism is to me not "a game," nor admissive of cogging and falsification.

From Notes and Queries, Number 197, August 6, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell

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

Thy eyes are shut, thy tongue cannot be cogging; Nothing of profit rests at thy dispose.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw