cogs
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The risk, he said, is that humans will be reduced “to mere cogs in a system driven toward ever greater efficiency.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
You can see the improvisational cogs turning in real time.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026
This was an era when England chopped and changed players frequently, using 29 in the 1989 Ashes, but Smith soon established himself as one of the important cogs around which the team was built.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
Ships like these are allegedly cogs in a maritime smuggling network known as the "shadow fleet", skirting sanctions by passing themselves off as cargo vessels on legitimate business.
From Barron's ● Dec. 2, 2025
Lord Stannis's Pury, a triple- decked war galley of three hundred oars, looked almost small beside some of the big-bellied carracks and cogs that surrounded her.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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