rusty
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Looking like a life jacket thrown into a car compactor, the work weaves a floppy beam of hazard-orange steel around and through a menacing conglomeration of rusty metal scraps.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Tera Lawson snuck her son’s new hacky sack when he wasn’t looking to test her rusty skills.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Oklahoma City gave them a rusty, tin-man version of SGA for a game and continued playing without his injured co-star Jalen Williams.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
Asked about which dinosaurs he’d hope to see in the movie, Choudhury lists off several that I have to look up, rusty from my years away from textbooks.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026
Whatever malevolent energy had been powering them was shut off, and they broke apart in screeching showers of rusty confetti.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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