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

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

In 1989 he became not just a Lion in Australia but a Test Lion, a key cog in Ian McGeechan's side as they came from 1-0 down in the series to win 2-1.

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

Among the masts of countless fishing boats, he spied a Tyroshi trading galley off-loading beside a lumbering Ibbenese cog with her black-tarred hull.

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

The sea was their gaming table and it was their ill luck if the dice were cogged.

From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Frank Earle Schoonover

A cogged wheel is so mounted that a ray of light passes between two of the teeth and is reflected back from a mirror.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson

The teeth of the cogged wheel are usually made the thickest, so as to somewhat equalise the strength of the teeth on the two wheels.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

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

Although it is not considered good mill practice, some manufacturers who have a large rolling mill perform the very important cogging operation in the rolling mill instead of under the hammer.

From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Fred H. (Fred Herbert) Colvin

That is cogging that you ask of me.

From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford

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

Why, Robin Goodfellow is this same cogging, pettifogging, crackropes, calf-skin companion.

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