cog
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Bohm, 29, soon cemented himself as the Phillies’ everyday third baseman, and he has been a consistent cog on a team that has made four consecutive postseason appearances.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Dipu was a small cog in Bangladesh's garment export machine, working for the past 14 months at the Pioneer Knitwear factory.
From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026
Coinbase has made stablecoins a key cog in its business, in part to help make its revenue less correlated to crypto-price volatility.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
“I do think Google’s self-sufficiency should command a premium relative to the others that could be adversely impacted by one cog in the wheel,” Treacy said, referring to Google’s proprietary tensor processing units.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026
The winds drove the cog before them, far off her chosen course.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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