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Gold is prized in electronic circuits because it conducts electricity well and does not corrode.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

As these planes age, they can corrode and require increasingly complex, time-consuming maintenance to keep them flight-ready.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

They worry the practice could mislead voters and corrode trust in nonpartisan news providers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026

However, he notes that there are still challenges in ensuring that electrolysis systems like this don't corrode too quickly over time.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025

Fortunately, as Marilyn Frye has noted, every birdcage has a door, and every birdcage can be broken and can corrode.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

And he bemoaned a rise in public anger "that distorts and corrodes our public discourse".

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

It must become a philosophy that corrodes collective faith, collective beliefs, and becomes excessively individualistic.

From Slate ● May 16, 2026

“When an officer turns routine traffic stops into opportunities for theft, for their own benefit, it corrodes public trust and endangers the integrity of our justice system.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

Like addiction or phobia, it narrows lives and corrodes resilience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025

The salt in seawater also corrodes metal and destroys electrical connectors.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

The hope and the change, the transcendent conviction that the systemic levers of government are not corroded beyond repair, the optimist I used to be—it all came rushing back.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

He is right that forward guidance has corroded the central bank’s discipline rather than sharpened it.

From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026

By 2018, the utility knew the concrete pipe had corroded “to the point that exposed rebar could be seen and that if not corrected could result in a catastrophic failure,” the lawsuit states.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

For we did not foresee then a world in which trust in traditional sources of news and information would be corroded by a rising cynicism, turbo-charged by social media and, increasingly now, AI.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026

A single ray of sunlight pierces the clouds like a spotlight to follow her, and her corroded, oxidized shell peels away, revealing shining copper from head to toe.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

"I cannot describe it. I mean, it looks ugly, really ugly," the 69-year-old said, peering through its corroding gates.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

“I believe they have been corroding our civil discourse, they’ve been ‘attention fracking’ our children and treating our youth like products, not people.”

From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2025

The goal isn’t to erase conflict but to keep it from corroding the bond.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025

For decades, a graveyard of corroding barrels has littered the seafloor just off the coast of Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

The main obstacle for the diffusion process being developed by Urey was its reliance on uranium hexafluoride gas, the detestable “hex,” which lived up to its nickname by severely corroding every permeable barrier Urey tried.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik