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- noun Plural form of
cogwheel .
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Examples
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And none of the cogwheels better start asking questions that might make people think about it turning the other way, buddy.
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Lately, all this cycling has started the cogwheels in my brain spinning.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Movement As Medicine: Spinning And The Self-Care Movement 2010
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Jack leaped into action, turning cogwheels and pulling levers—actions that simultaneously readied his trebuchet and turned it on its base so that it was aimed at the nearest Chinese artillery unit.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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Jack leaped into action, turning cogwheels and pulling levers—actions that simultaneously readied his trebuchet and turned it on its base so that it was aimed at the nearest Chinese artillery unit.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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It doesn't sound exciting but I've seen worse literal covers for this book with mechanical oranges and cogwheels.
Cover Art(illery) Eeleen Lee 2010
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Jack leaped into action, turning cogwheels and pulling levers—actions that simultaneously readied his trebuchet and turned it on its base so that it was aimed at the nearest Chinese artillery unit.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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I then pinned the shortcuts to the taskbar…which are seen in the attached picture as grey cogwheels.
From The Tips Box: External Drives, Userscript Organisation | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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It doesn't sound exciting but I've seen worse literal covers for this book with mechanical oranges and cogwheels.
Archive 2010-05-01 Eeleen Lee 2010
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But while the tumbling cogwheels had monopolized his attention, he had failed to observe the rest of the machine.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000
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The pieces contained the remnants of an elaborate device, a system of 30 cogwheels laid on cogwheels, and after much study the consensus decision was that the Antikythera Mechanism, as it came to be called, was in fact an ancient analog computer.
Dan Agin: Book Review: Tackling the Mystery of a 2,000-Year-Old Computer 2009
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