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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

We just have to shake off a little rust first.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

Williams hadn't played in a tournament since saying she was "evolving away" from tennis in 2022, so inevitably there were signs of rust.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

Making his first major-league appearance since the eighth inning of Game 7 of the World Series, Snell showed rust early, giving up a leadoff single to Mauricio Dubón and walking Drake Baldwin.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026

It’s due to the reddish rust of iron-containing rocks.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

“It needs a ton of work—even plastic rusts in Key West.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 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

The Ustilagines include the smuts and bunt of corn-plants, the Uredines include the red rusts of wheat and grasses.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke

Its curved blade, chipped and rusted, with a gilded, possibly brass, hilt featuring a lion on the end, is too delicate to hold.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

But he also didn’t want to die an old man on a rusted prison cot.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

The researchers compare the damaged protein to a rusted key that no longer fits its lock.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

Mercantile scales and rusted bird cages are scattered across crowded shelves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

The yellow bus rumbled through a tumbledown section of town, an industrial no-man’s-land of railroad tracks, warehouses, and empty factories with broken windows and rusted steel roofs.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers

Today, abandoned barge cranes lie rusting and rotting in delta sloughs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

The reef is home to a small Philippine military outpost aboard the BRP Sierra Madre, a rusting World War Two-era ship deliberately grounded there in 1999 to assert Manila's claim to the territory.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

Electricity reverses the rusting process, allowing the iron batteries to store energy for later use.

From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026

Naturally that means the risk versus reward of fixing rusting wells in an unstable country like Venezuela looks different.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

The boy tipped his head towards the rusting tin on the roof as he prepared to recite his lines.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat