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Called the Varyag, it was originally ordered for the Soviet Union, but was left to rust unfinished in a Ukrainian shipyard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

They could be from naturally occurring phenomena like wheat rust and weather or from human activity such as sustained global conflicts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

There is still “a lot of rust to knock off,” during camp and the lead-up to the season, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

For Joshua, it is about far more than shaking off ring rust.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

There’s half a dozen empty steel drums behind the bait shack, and I roll out the four have the least rust.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

“It needs a ton of work—even plastic rusts in Key West.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

The mineral cave decor — epsomite, mirabilite, sulfate — rusts into the ruddy orange of iron oxide, the deep black of manganese.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2023

Carbon steel rusts easily, so those knives have to be consistently washed and dried to avoid discoloration.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

“Spring Break”: A child is traumatized when his beloved Slinky rusts out.

From Washington Post ● May 13, 2021

And when the sword of the law, confided to the hands of our enemies, rusts in its sheath?

From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue

Among City Hall’s problems has been a mummified tolerance of arthritic leadership and the rusted machinery of basic services.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Quintero helps maintain a rusted pump jack for the state oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, on a patio adjacent to his brick shack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

"This is a Tour de France original bicycle," from 1979, the 73-year-old added, holding up a piece of a rusted frame.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Its curved blade, chipped and rusted, with a gilded, possibly brass, hilt featuring a lion on the end, is too delicate to hold.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Nate’s back is to me when I duck under the half-open rusted shop door.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

On a recent journey to international waters off the coast of Malaysia chartered by the U.S. advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran, empty, rusting Iranian-linked ships floated high in the water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Old and rusting tankers like these form what maritime experts call the “shadow fleet,” a roving armada of hundreds of vessels that ferry oil for sanctioned regimes, including Iran and Russia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

The reef is home to a small Philippine military outpost aboard the BRP Sierra Madre, a rusting World War Two-era ship deliberately grounded there in 1999 to assert Manila's claim to the territory.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

Goodison-Blanks said the tin itself had some "patternation and rusting" on it and the label was a "bit worn".

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

He’d been hiding the truth for too long, and it was rusting away his insides.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai