corroding

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The confession results in confusion and anger erupting like molten lava from all sides, instantly corroding Emma’s bond with Charlie and her relationships with their friends.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 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

Corrosion of metals in surgical implants is a huge problem, and because the metal is the functional part, as well as the corroding part, the amount of metal is key.

From Science Daily • May 7, 2024

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