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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

As these planes age, they can corrode and require increasingly complex, time-consuming maintenance to keep them flight-ready.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Starring a stacked Guatemalan cast, including actor Tony Revolori, the project underlined the encroaching impacts of climate change that corrode once treasured memories, including those of Moreno, who grew up visiting the vacation destination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

Committee chair Matt Western warned mishandling similar future cases will "corrode public trust".

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

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

Digital technology isn’t merely accelerating some inevitable tide but is a force unto itself—one that makes solitary leisure more appealing, corrodes the incentives for sociality and, as a downstream consequence, reduces marriage and fertility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 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

“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

The hope and the change, the transcendent conviction that the systemic levers of government are not corroded beyond repair, the optimist I used to be—it all came rushing back.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

CSB reports cited a range of avoidable failures, from corroded pipes to the lack of safety equipment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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

It was wet, corroded, and a little slimy.

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

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

It has been corroding not just in the US but across the western world for decades now.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026

“I believe they have been corroding our civil discourse, they’ve been ‘attention fracking’ our children and treating our youth like products, not people.”

From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2025

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë