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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

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

The town has felt the risk, if not the benefits, of being a cog in France’s military industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

"You require passage for a hundred Dothraki, all their horses, yourself and this knight, and three dragons?" said the captain of the great cog Ardent Friend before he walked away laughing.

From "A Clash of Kings" 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

I would ye would reconcile it to your conscience so to act to him as I would have you, for his injustice to the poor and for his cogged oaths.

From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford Madox Ford

It consists of a wooden frame containing cogged iron wheels of increasing powers.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

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

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

The carpenter frames or combines separate pieces of timber by scarfing, notching, cogging, tenoning, pinning and wedging, &c.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

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

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

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

I wonder if Santiago of Bressure be one of these cogging shirks.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux