Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the manner of a cancer.
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- adverb In a
cancerous manner; like acancer ;malignant ; spreading. - adverb With
cancer .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Taxpayers ultimately put up $180 billion to bail out AIG, which was cancerously interconnected to other financial institutions through its $2 trillion derivatives portfolio.
Clearinghouses Are the Answer Gary Gensler 2010
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That the history of Japanese mythology is not so cancerously distorted is perhaps the reason they are far more open to the design and productions of robots than
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More indirectly still (although cancerously effective) is the systemic destruction of American education.
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Everything we know about terrorism tells us that it is nothing like fascism in its method of organization, that it has no one leader, that its cancerously-proliferating cells operate largely on their own.
James Heffernan: When are we Going to Learn that War is the Worst Possible Way to Fight Terrorism? 2008
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We have described how a system of checks and balances, in the trial process, grew almost cancerously.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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When a field of law becomes cancerously intricate, some fundamental conflict of interest, some fundamental tension between opposing values, must lie at the root of the problem.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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When a field of law becomes cancerously intricate, some fundamental conflict of interest, some fundamental tension between opposing values, must lie at the root of the problem.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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We have described how a system of checks and balances, in the trial process, grew almost cancerously.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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We have described how a system of checks and balances, in the trial process, grew almost cancerously.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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When a field of law becomes cancerously intricate, some fundamental conflict of interest, some fundamental tension between opposing values, must lie at the root of the problem.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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