cog

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

"At a men's game, you feel like you're just a cog," says Donna Jones, a season ticket-holder at London City Lionesses.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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

This time it was a Myrish cog named Dove, on her way to Yunkai by way of New Ghis with a cargo of carpets, sweet green wines, and Myrish lace.

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

Does it signify a brass farthing to me whether the noble house of Lackington quarters its arms with the cogged dice and the marked king of the Davises?

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever

There followed the keen, quick rattling of a cogged wheel and a rush of people who seemed insufficiently impressed by the magnitude of the event.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Harry Leon Wilson

The mill was a mechanism of three vertical brass rollers, each approximately a foot in diameter, that were cogged together with teeth around their top and bottom.

From Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

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

If the Venetian boxes be the most sovereign of all remedies against this same cogging, is it not a strange thing that they should be thrown first into the fire by a fair gamester?

From The Commonwealth of Oceana by James Harrington

"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 Sir Walter Scott

Such a system of cogging, such a system of fraud, such a system of prevarication, such a system of falsehood, never was, I believe, before exhibited in the world.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

In pride, deceit, prating, lying, cogging, coyness, spite, hate, sir.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various