corrode
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This passive layer helps prevent the underlying metal from continuing to corrode.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Gold is prized in electronic circuits because it conducts electricity well and does not corrode.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Higher ethanol blends can also corrode gasoline pumps, storage tanks and other infrastructure unless retailers and distributors make upgrades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
They worry the practice could mislead voters and corrode trust in nonpartisan news providers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026
His golden skin began to corrode, breaking into chunks.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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
Antisemitism corrodes the civic foundations on which plural societies depend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
"Everyone must lie", she says, because "to be honest is dangerous"; and yet "lying corrodes the team", which is much-needed to complete tasks.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2025
“When an officer violates someone’s civil rights, it corrodes trust in law enforcement and undermines the effectiveness of other officers who sacrifice to protect the public,” U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024
The salt in seawater also corrodes metal and destroys electrical connectors.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
He is right that forward guidance has corroded the central bank’s discipline rather than sharpened it.
From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026
The infrastructure is part of an offshore oil operation that had been closed since 2015, when a corroded section of one of the pipelines burst and caused one of the state’s worst oil spills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026
That incident prompted Japanese authorities to step up efforts to replace corroded pipes across the country.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
However, the researchers did not look into what happened when the glass was deliberately smashed -- or corroded by chemicals.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
But then a pre-raising inspection of the sunken vessel revealed that most of the nails in the planks inside the ship had corroded during the more than four hundred years it had been submerged.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
"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
In columns and on TV, he warns that Hegseth’s cavalier attitude toward the rule of law and civilian protections is corroding military professionalism.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026
The goal isn’t to erase conflict but to keep it from corroding the bond.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025
For decades, a graveyard of corroding barrels has littered the seafloor just off the coast of Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
He unsnapped the corroding latches and opened it.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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