corroding

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Mr. McDougall notes that Mary Shelley “had seen it all coming” decades before Dostoyevsky and Nietzsche warned that Europe was corroding itself from within.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 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

He adds that migration is an "emotive and complicated issue", but the UK and other Western nations should avoid "cherry-picking the best and corroding African states from being successful themselves".

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2024

Corrosion of metals in surgical implants is a huge problem, and because the metal is the functional part, as well as the corroding part, the amount of metal is key.

From Science Daily • May 7, 2024

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë