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rusty

[ruhs-tee] / ˈrʌs ti /




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Oklahoma City gave them a rusty, tin-man version of SGA for a game and continued playing without his injured co-star Jalen Williams.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

The proverbial wheels of justice grind at an almost unbelievably rusty pace, leaving Nick facing the prospect of imminent death for 22 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Asked about which dinosaurs he’d hope to see in the movie, Choudhury lists off several that I have to look up, rusty from my years away from textbooks.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026

IKATEQ, Greenland—Deep in a remote fjord in Greenland, hundreds of rusty fuel drums known locally as “American flowers” litter the icy wilderness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

I breathe in Vaseline and brass and rusty snaps holding hard cases closed.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari




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