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Gold is prized in electronic circuits because it conducts electricity well and does not corrode.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

People travelling on one of the UK's busiest rail lines face weeks of disruption as engineers replace overhead power lines that corrode quicker than any other part of the network.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

Higher ethanol blends can also corrode gasoline pumps, storage tanks and other infrastructure unless retailers and distributors make upgrades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026

They worry the practice could mislead voters and corrode trust in nonpartisan news providers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026

His golden skin began to corrode, breaking into chunks.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

And he bemoaned a rise in public anger "that distorts and corrodes our public discourse".

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

The criticism forced Attorney General Eric Holder to apologize and led to new Justice Department policies sharply limiting investigations of journalists, recognizing that targeting reporters to identify sources corrodes the First Amendment itself.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026

Antisemitism corrodes the civic foundations on which plural societies depend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025

“When an officer turns routine traffic stops into opportunities for theft, for their own benefit, it corrodes public trust and endangers the integrity of our justice system.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

The salt in seawater also corrodes metal and destroys electrical connectors.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Investigations into absolutely everything that has been corroded and broken in the courts and the Justice Department will be of paramount importance.

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026

He is right that forward guidance has corroded the central bank’s discipline rather than sharpened it.

From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026

For we did not foresee then a world in which trust in traditional sources of news and information would be corroded by a rising cynicism, turbo-charged by social media and, increasingly now, AI.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026

The units, situated 5 to 9 miles from Santa Barbara County’s coastline, were shut-in after a corroded pipeline released nearly 3,000 barrels of oil in 2015.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

They glided through windows or smashed through the corroded roof.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

"I cannot describe it. I mean, it looks ugly, really ugly," the 69-year-old said, peering through its corroding gates.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

In columns and on TV, he warns that Hegseth’s cavalier attitude toward the rule of law and civilian protections is corroding military professionalism.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026

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

For decades, a graveyard of corroding barrels has littered the seafloor just off the coast of Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

He unsnapped the corroding latches and opened it.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy