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cogwheel

noun as in cog

noun as in gear

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There are red cogwheel trains and cable cars.

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The cleverly punctuated title of Dennis Duncan’s book, “Index, A History of The,” should signal that this isn’t a dry account of a small cogwheel in the publishing machine.

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You set it up using the web version of Gmail: Click on the “Settings” cogwheel in the upper right corner, and on “See all settings.”

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The most interesting aspect of these final years of Federer’s career has been what he is willing to do to keep those cogwheels turning.

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If either factor failed—if reproduction failed to produce variants or if heredity failed to transmit the variations—then nature would be mired in a ditch, the cogwheels of evolution jammed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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