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“I’m very concerned about the possible corrosion, specifically rust, of all the hardware that holds the bridge together and that attaches the cables,” one participant said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

With the second Test starting in only five days' time in Gqeberha, South Africa must hope this Test has removed the rust.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 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

We just have to shake off a little rust first.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

Soon the rust and the tarnished spots have turned to shine.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

“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

"Not much, I reckon; it's them wet clouds goin' back'ard and for'ard over her that spile her polish, same way as the spray rusts our b'ilers."

From Harper's Young People, April 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

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

The rusted, twisted metal became a means, the authors write, for “communities far from New York to establish a physical bond through these remnants of destruction.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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

In among the thorns and flowers he saw a rusted door handle.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Now, the Professor Molchanov is in a watery limbo, rusting in the Barentsburg port as Russia pursues an appeal at The Hague.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Bu and Tyapa had to be cut out of their rusting steel cages, sedated and placed in secure transport crates for the journey back to Tiger House, where they received veterinary treatment and underwent quarantine.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

"These coins were rusting and expanding and were capable of pressing the whole column of rock above them, pushing them up," he told BBC Radio Foyle's North West Today programme.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

The new EU stepped in to help build border fences, including an eight-foot-tall barrier built in 1995 to replace the rusting, chest-high wire that cordoned Ceuta off from Morocco.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The boy tipped his head towards the rusting tin on the roof as he prepared to recite his lines.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat