rusting
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The largest structure, a six-story building with dozens of broken windows, is sealed shut with rusting metal grillwork.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
Today, abandoned barge cranes lie rusting and rotting in delta sloughs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Now they are rusting monuments to Scotland's industrial past.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
A rusting cargo ship now lies stranded on a sandbank in the blue lagoon, where only a handful of fishing boats float around.
From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026
We lived in the Portland Avenue Stacks, a sprawling hive of discolored tin shoeboxes rusting on the shores of I-40, just west of Oklahoma City’s decaying skyscraper core.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Chemistry - High School
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