metastasize

Many of them have been kicking the tires on the AI trade for years now, highlighting potential risks that could someday metastasize into bigger problems for the market.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Because these tumors often metastasize, the reptiles provide scientists with a rare chance to observe how cancer begins, evolves, and spreads under natural conditions.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

AJ: Dr. King predicted that if America did not address the cancer of bigotry, it would metastasize and bring down the nation.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2024

The fault isn’t just with them — in Hollywood, blame and error metastasize — and Bach tracks how Transamerica, UA executives and the media contributed to the production’s failure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

Without those limitations, copyright law will bloat and metastasize into a claim of monopoly, or at least control, over the very architectures of our communications technology.

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle

Since Starbucks first introduced the drink category in 2012, they’ve quickly metastasized across menus, becoming the popular secret third thing for those who aren’t into the taste or price tag of coffee or matcha.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026

“A year and a half ago I was diagnosed with Stage 4 Breast Cancer, which has metastasized to my bones,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

"The cancer has spread, is metastasized into his bones and further," Biden said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026

Vice works well only when localized, and not metastasized across every sector of life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

But in that brief span the storm abruptly metastasized into a full-blown hurricane, and the visibility dropped to less than twenty feet.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike gained 21% following earnings in which the company lifted its guidance in part from metastasizing risks related to AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

As Hass delicately puts it, “The open divergences between Washington and its partners over the war’s legitimacy, execution, and fallout have exposed fissures that risk metastasizing to other issue areas over time.”

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026

Prof Rahul Roychoudhuri, from the University of Cambridge, told me: "What we've discovered is that aspirin might work, surprisingly, by unleashing the power of the immune system to recognize and kill metastasizing cancer cells."

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025

The threat “has been metastasizing across the country,” Wray testified in 2021, and “it’s not going away anytime soon.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2025

Marley had written that line a year before his death, while an operable melanoma was, at that moment, metastasizing to his lungs, liver, stomach and brain.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover