cog

“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

For nearly two decades, he had been the definition of sports anonymity—an interchangeable cog turning in the unforgiving machine that is professional baseball.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

This God created a world that ran like clockwork, with every plant, animal, and creature a cog in the great machine.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

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 billet resulting therefrom is known as a "cogged" billet and is of the proper size for the rolling mill or for the finishing hammer.

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

A cogged or corked or caulked joint is made by cutting out only parts of the notch on the lower piece, leaving a "cog" uncut.

From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes

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

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

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 John Fletcher

I wonder if Santiago of Bressure be one of these cogging shirks.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux

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 George Augustus Sala

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