cog

noun

Definition of cognext
as in assistant

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Recent Examples of cog Samsung is Club name Qnity's largest customer and an important cog in the overall semiconductor supply chain, so Wall Street will pay attention to these results. — Jeff Marks,morgan Chittum, CNBC, 6 July 2026 The app has become a quintessential cog in the dating machine—especially in those liminal stages, the flirtations and the breakups. — Annie Joy Williams, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026 That is up to a human using the tool, which makes the person behind each prompt a crucial cog in any workflow. — Jason Phillips, USA Today, 18 June 2026 The 49ers view Williams as a versatile cog in their defensive line machine, with the ability to set the edge in running situations and pass rush against guards on passing downs. — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 5 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for cog
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cog
  1. assistant
  2. subordinate
  3. underling
  4. worker
  5. employee
  6. flunky
  7. yes-man
  8. retainer
Noun
  • Alex Wagner, who served as assistant secretary of the Air Force for manpower and reserve affairs during the Biden administration, argued recruiting has remained remarkably insulated from those political battles.
    — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Coach Ken Niumatalolo built a veteran staff of assistants under Filimoeatu, adding defensive pass game coordinator and cornerbacks coach Brian Norwood along with safeties coach Joe Dale.
    — Niles Hall, Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of assistant
Noun
  • Putin has also protected his direct allies while not extending any such shield to younger subordinates.
    — Julian G. Waller, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Whether peer-to-peer, superior-to-subordinate, or subordinate-to-superior, there has to be trust.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of subordinate
Noun
  • Rumors of relationships between executives and underlings went around on campus.
    — Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026
  • France’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival gets underway this weekend with Illumination’s Minions & Monsters, the latest movie devoted to the mischievous army of yellow underlings first introduced in 2010 breakout Despicable Me.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 19 June 2026
Definition of underling
Noun
  • The settlement will be paid by Hyundai Mobis, Kia and local staffing and recruitment agencies that helped find and bring the immigrant workers to Georgia on temporary visas.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • And in Pereira, a CNN team on the ground saw rescue workers and volunteers form a human chain to remove debris and help save those trapped from an apartment building.
    — Rocio Munoz, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of worker
Noun
  • Instead, the Secretary of State's office sent four employees and the Attorney General's Office sent three attorneys to court.
    — Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • But that line of reasoning did not resonate with the Service Employees International Union, which represents about 6,000 Sharp employees, 81 of whom received layoff notices Tuesday.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of employee
Noun
  • Yasmin, Tender’s briefly installed head of communications, is the first of Whitney’s flunkies to defect.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
  • For instance, Bolsonaro’s flunkies penetrated the government agency that handled film distribution.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
Definition of flunky
Noun
  • The first, Jim O’Neill, is a biotech entrepreneur who lacks a degree in medicine or public health and was widely seen as a yes-man for Kennedy.
    — Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
  • During the rollout of ChatGPT’s GPT-4o model in 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agreed with X users that the chatbot had a problem with being a yes-man.
    — CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2026
Definition of yes-man
Noun
  • MouthPad is a touchpad that sits over the upper teeth like a slim dental retainer and is controlled with the tip of the tongue.
    — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Throughout 2017 Cohen (Lawyer A) submits 10 similar invoices for the remaining months in 2017, but is not on retainer, according to prosecutors.
    — Jessie DiMartino, ABC News, 29 July 2026
Definition of retainer

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