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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

It then reverses the process, turning the rust back into iron and breathing out oxygen to charge and discharge the battery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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

He taught Ellsberg to constantly scan the barbed wire fences along the road, looking for a shiny edge that hadn’t had time to rust, the telltale sign of a recent slice.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

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

“Spring Break”: A child is traumatized when his beloved Slinky rusts out.

From Washington Post ● May 13, 2021

O thou, in me, Art shrined, as none hath seen thee, as gods live Whom Time shall not consume; nor rusts thy gold Ever, so hath my soul enclosed thee round With its divine air.

From Eidola by Frederic Manning

The rusted, twisted metal became a means, the authors write, for “communities far from New York to establish a physical bond through these remnants of destruction.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Broken pumps, rusted pipes, ghost towns mark Venezuela’s once vibrant oil hub.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Nobody knows how, since the bell’s been chained up for such a long time that the metal links have rusted.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

While trimming back Valerie's hedges and clearing brambles, the 24-year-old spotted a rusted, 50cm device that looked "almost like a mortar stood up on its tail".

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

I pass what looks like a park with rusted playground equipment and boarded-up storefronts.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

On a recent journey to international waters off the coast of Malaysia chartered by the U.S. advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran, empty, rusting Iranian-linked ships floated high in the water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Pictures last week of the USS Abraham Lincoln docking in Thailand with a rusting hull after a gruelling nine months at sea in the Gulf were pounced on by Iran.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

"These coins were rusting and expanding and were capable of pressing the whole column of rock above them, pushing them up," he told BBC Radio Foyle's North West Today programme.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Old and rusting tankers like these form what maritime experts call the “shadow fleet,” a roving armada of hundreds of vessels that ferry oil for sanctioned regimes, including Iran and Russia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

Now, in six rusting ships, fourteen hundred of those Cubans were sailing back home.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin