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Not while he’s flustered and frustrated — which you can’t spell without rust, though even Roberts admitted, “I don’t know how long you can use the rust thing, which I’ve certainly used.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

The zoo is seeing challenges to its national accreditation after federal regulators spotted rust and and peeling paint in some of its exhibits, and pointed out “critical” funding and staffing shortages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

We just have to shake off a little rust first.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

But when Kingshaw touched it, his fingers came away brown with powdery rust, and the padlock dropped open.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

While I confess to having more than three bedrooms in my colonial, I’ll continue to drive my 2014 Jeep until the engine fails or the car rusts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 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

Fungal rusts and smuts that are proliferating in our increasingly warmer and wetter world endanger the world’s coffee supply.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2022

Which occurs when salt is dissolved in water, milk sours, iron rusts, water boils, iron is magnetized and mercuric oxide is heated above the boiling point of mercury?

From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Among the relics of its decline is a hulking complex of rusted pipes, towers and conveyor belts in Delano, just five miles north of the McFarland chipping yard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 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

Mother looked at the building through a rusted chain-link fence.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

Around the lake, the remnants of Venezuela’s oil boom are woven into everyday life, with homes surrounded by rusting pump jacks and pipelines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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 siren tower in our village is rusting and leaning and is set to fall any time because there has never been any maintenance."

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 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

Along the interstate in the distance long lines of charred and rusting cars.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy