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metastasize

[muh-tas-tuh-sahyz] / məˈtæs təˌsaɪz /


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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

"This means cancer cells will migrate within the nerve and use the nerve as a way to metastasize."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2026

But, he said, he could be among those patients whose cancers do not produce elevated PSA levels or whose more aggressive cancers rapidly grow and metastasize within a matter of months.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025

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

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

And now, there’s her husband’s cancer: prostate, stage four, metastasized to his bones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

Others mistook malignant changes for infection, sending women home with antibiotics only to have them return later, dying from metastasized cancer.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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

Sakaguchi said that he wanted to continue researching how to enhance immune responses in cancer and to potentially prevent cancer cells from spreading and metastasizing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025

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

I imagined the tumor metastasizing into my own bones, boring holes into my skeleton, a slithering eel of insidious intent.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green




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