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- noun Plural form of
cog .
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Both players will be main cogs in the future of TSU basketball.
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Both players will be main cogs in the future of TSU basketball.
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LEED, USDA Organic, FSC … none of these are perfect, but they are setting up “certain cogs and wheels” in the economic Juggernaut, as Aldo Leopold had hoped more than 70 years ago.
First LEED Platinum Carbon Neutral Building! | Inhabitat 2007
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The Indianapolis Colts have lost several key cogs from the team that won Super Bowl XLI last year.
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` ` Yao and Tracy are the main cogs on our team and everything we do is focusing on them, so when Yao is not out there it totally changes the dynamic of our team, '' Battier said.
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Other newcomers to the ballot: Warren Moon and two cogs from the Buffalo Bills 'four consecutive AFC title teams, Thurman Thomas and Andre Reed.
USATODAY.com - Progress would have pleased Pollard, grandson says 2005
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Outlook: Terrapins lose three main cogs in their recent success - All-America G Juan Dixon, C Lonny Baxter and F Byron Mouton.
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Theoretically a great team with O’Neal and Bryant as the main cogs with a very good supporting cast.
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But if the American people don't ever notice and realize how our governmental "cogs" and structures are now arranged and operating in ways that are eerily similar, in certain key respects, to that of the USSR, then there will be no need for a Revolution.
W.C. Varones 2010
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(I am still trying to get management to understand that all developers are not the same sized "cogs" with the same number of "teeth" and, therefore, totally and simply interchangeable!)
SSWUG.ORG Articles 2010
vendingmachine commented on the word cogs
"Count the cogs on the wheels of a fanning-mill, washing-machine, apple-parer, or egg-beater, and determine how the direction or rate of the motion is changed thereby."
May 20, 2016