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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
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
Among the targets in recent days was the IRGC’s Tharallah headquarters on Sunday, a central cog in the forces’ protest-suppression machine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 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
She was an old cog, and even in her youth no one had ever called her pretty.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
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 Austin, Mary Hunter
Dame fortune, in her best humour, with all her cogged dice in the bargain, could not, as Collins himself thought, have thrown him a luckier hit.
From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Weems, Mason Locke
A cogged wheel beside him was turning a notch.
From The Red Hell of Jupiter by Ernst, Paul
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
"This must be some idle notion, Catharine, or some trick of those cogging priests and nuns; it accords not with thy late cheerful willingness to wed Henry Smith."
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Scott, Walter, Sir
Nay, nay, I do beseech you leave your cogging, what they are, they are, they serve me without Spectacles I thank 'em.
From The Scornful Lady by Fletcher, John
For at least seventy out of his eighty years of life he had been cheating, cogging, betraying, and doing the Devil's service upon earth; and who shall say that his end was undeserved?
From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus
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