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The bridge is painted each year to protect the steel from salt air corrosion.corrosion = deterioration (rust)
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The essay insists that there has been a corrosion of the American values of liberty and self-reliance.corrosion = deterioration
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A suddenness found its way onto his lips then, which were a corroded brown color and peeling, like old paint. (source)corroded = deteriorated
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He unsnapped the corroding latches and opened it. (source)corroding = deteriorating -- especially of metals
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It has a dry, clear and virtually smog-free climate that helps minimize corrosion.† (source)
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There's been talk of rust, of corrosion, of structural weaknesses; there's been talk of tearing it down.† (source)
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He snatched up the mirror and jiggled the bolts back into the corroded holes.† (source)
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and Saeed felt as he was doing it that he was a bad son, and when Nadia squatted down beside a scraggly bush and bade him squat down as well, and there concealed tried to kiss him under the open sky, he turned his face away angrily, and then immediately apologized, and placed his cheek against hers, and she tried to relax against him, cheek to bearded cheek, but she was surprised, because what she thought she had glimpsed in him in that moment was bitterness, and she had never seen bitterness in him before, not in all these months, not for one second, even when his mother had died, then he had been mournful, yes, depressed, but not bitter, not as though something was corroding his insides.† (source)
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Next to that was a dented bronze breastplate pitted with corrosion —acid, maybe?† (source)
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However, the ground wire couldn't be sunk too deep, either, because the clay layer had a strong corrosive effect, and after a while, it would corrode the middle section of the ground wire.† (source)
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Reestablished in the corroded shell of Fairbanks 142, McCandless fell back into his routine of hunting and gathering.† (source)
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To some small degree he did succeed in further corroding Ayemenem's view of working wives.† (source)
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The valves were made of titanium because they had to function reliably after prolonged exposure to high temperature, and also because titanium was very corrosion-resistant—high-temperature water was murderously corrosive.† (source)
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If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.† (source)
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By themselves, the cyberdisruptions would have been temporarily crippling, but combined with a crumbling New York infrastructure where aging pipes, long corroded by seawater, burst when they froze up from the water stoppage and cold temperatures, and the heavy snow and ice that had downed power and telephone lines and blocked roads—all together it had created a deadly trap that killed tens of thousands of people.† (source)
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I flashed a smile to keep the honesty of the statement from corroding the remainder of my heart.† (source)
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