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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He's joined the Liberal Party, and now he's a very important cog in the cabinet.
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I hear them in there pry up his forehead like a manhole cover, clash and snarl of jammed cogs.
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Our cog was a sturdy merchantman escorted by a small man-of-war.
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Silver Reed and Knitmaster owners should make sure the patterning cogs spin freely.
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The lime kiln belly rotated on giant cogs into the dark of the next chamber.
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The steering is pin sharp and the delicate gearshift absolutely superb, swapping the cogs with a velvet action.
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They were like cogs working together, fitting into place when and where they were needed.
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When processes are so complex nobody really understands them, employees feel like anonymous cogs in a big machine.