metastasize

• “Moving on to Europe, Huntsman used the word "metastasize" to describe the euro crisis.”

  The Guardian: GOP presidential debate in South Carolina - as it happened

• “Then Rick Perry is asked a similar question – and he doesn't use the word "metastasize".”

  The Guardian: GOP presidential debate in South Carolina - as it happened

• “You take out the main operational leader and then the cells kind of metastasize and become harder targets because they're dispersed.”

  CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2007

• “While the fiscal problems "aren't prompting long-term yields to surge at present, there could come a sudden tipping point with this kind of problem, and it could metastasize to a more serious phase," he said at a news conference.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Japan Bond Yield Falls to 7-Month Low on Greece Concerns

• “But breast tumors, not fatal by themselves, can metastasize to the lungs or other vital organs before they are large enough to be discovered by a mammogram — in which case the women is likely to die whether she has a mammogram or not.”

  Rethinking the Mammogram Guidelines

• “Al Qaeda is indeed something like a sickness; it is like a cancerous growth that can metastasize at totally unforeseen places, as the London and Madrid attacks showed.”

  The Huffington Post: Carlo Strenger: Lessons from 9/11: Cool-Headedness More Effective than Rage in Fighting Terrorism

• “Questions like: What makes a tumor metastasize, or spread through the body?”

  The Huffington Post: New Hope For Cancer Therapy

• “Convinced that private tutoring is a "slippery slope," the father was certain that a biology tutor would only teach his son that if he made a mess, someone would be there to clean it up and, moreover, this mindset would metastasize into other areas of his son's life.”

  The Huffington Post: Alex Mallory: Isn't Tutoring Just a Crutch?

• “As for the year we leave behind, it was, at least in the American political arena, another blue-ribbon winner for deceit and stupidity -- traits that, unfortunately for all of us, tend to metastasize wildly as elections approach.”

  The Huffington Post: Daniel Cluchey: Unsolicited New Year's Resolutions

• “• Scandals surrounding the now-bankrupt Solyndra, Fannie and Freddie, MF Global and administration insider deals still to emerge will metastasize, demolishing the president's image as a political outsider.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Political Predictions for 2012

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