cog

Example Sentences

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Smart leads the Lakers in overall plus-minus, a quiet cog who connects the Lakers’ constellation of stars.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 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

“I do think Google’s self-sufficiency should command a premium relative to the others that could be adversely impacted by one cog in the wheel,” Treacy said, referring to Google’s proprietary tensor processing units.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026

We were a cog in a machine that would get the forged documents to Jewish people whose lives depended on receiving them.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler