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

Basically, they wanted just another cog in the machine to help clear a path to a third consecutive World Series championship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 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

Take that away and the message is clear: You’re a cog.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 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

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 mitre wheel, working with other cogged wheels, communicates the motion of the direction shaft to a cylinder carrying a pencil, to record the direction.

From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Henry Negretti

The "cogged joint," used for connecting purlins to rafter and joists to girders, is illustrated in Fig.

From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham

The cards had been stacked; the dice were cogged.

From The Moonlit Way by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

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

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

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

The hammered billets are again slowly heated and receive a second hammering, known as "cogging."

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

I haue matter in my head against you and your cogging companions, Pistoll and Nym.

From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover

But I have spied a knave, my Lady Lucre's cogging man.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt