rusts

present tense third-person singular of rust

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Verb
  • If Britain continues down the path of criminalizing thought and prayer, the alliance risks being reduced to polite diplomacy while its moral core rots away.
    Lois McLatchie Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The calculation, called the Fourier transform, decomposes any function into its parts.
    Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This could include some sort of novel, exotic form of mass or energy, a non-standard form of dark matter or dark energy that decays or otherwise interacts, or a modification to one or more laws of physics.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Competitive advantage now decays in months, not years.
    Jason Wingard, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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  • Risk perceptions keep capital in safe markets, compliance-heavy rules choke local access, and misinformation corrodes trust in the very tools meant to help.
    Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Rusts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rusts. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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