The unsolved problem here is to explain exceptions such ascog(always with the lax vowel) and dog (always with the tense vowel).From theCambridge English Corpus
Everything fell into place, the cogs meshed, and the thing really seemed to be a machine which in a moment would run of itself.From theCambridge English Corpus
That the capacity exists is enough to suggest that the error theory of morality is an unnecessarycogin evolutionary human psychology.From theCambridge English Corpus
These soldier captives were cogs in a war machine.From theCambridge English Corpus
Macromolecules can be thought of as ' cogs in the machine ' in which pathways and networks are the result of the availability of substrates.From theCambridge English Corpus
Pieter comes across as simply one morecogin the relentlessly grinding colonial machine.From theCambridge English Corpus
Far from being elders, matriarchs and patriarchs, important cogs in the wheel of the family, old people began to be perceived as social problems.From theCambridge English Corpus
A collective commitment to acknowledging responsibility, feeling guilt, and making collective reparation should not, however, mean the condemnation of individuals who have truly been cogs in the wheel.From theCambridge English Corpus
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