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- v. Present participle of metastasize.
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Examples
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The process known as metastasizing is responsible for the spread of cancer cells such that the initial cancer tumor can cause the growth of new tumors in various parts of the body.
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But for now, the Wukan narrative stands as a vindication of poor people's challenge to metastasizing inequality and parasitic corruption across China.
Michelle Chen: Will Peasants and Migrant Workers Forge China's New Political Vanguard?
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Stark contrast to the headlines I was reading at that very moment -- the metastasizing economic crisis, anguish of joblessness, with it, the suppressed potential of millions -- societal restlessness; the no-end-in-sight feel of the Eurozone debt crisis who'd ever thought we'd be bailing out governments?
Lydia Fisher: A World Adrift in Turmoil, Yet Lit by Candles...
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Either somebody spends money to grow the economy or the metastasizing cancer of a jobless nation will plague us indefinitely.
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The massacre in Norway is a tragic signal of this metastasizing social cancer.
John L. Esposito: 10th Anniversary of 9/11 and Muslim Americans: the Need for a New Narrative
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In an age of metastasizing inequality, those who can't work are increasingly dependent on the working-age generation.
Michelle Chen: How the Global "Gray Wave" Crashes Through Closed Borders
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A new isolationism is metastasizing in the American body politic.
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I'd like to think that, had I a more ominous form of cancer --- I was told that mine, somehow (very fortunately) not metastasizing to bone or lungs despite having returned for a year, was "serious but not ominous" --- I'd sport the same bravado, but then, perhaps not.
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Palestinian President Arafat accepted this Arab peace initiative in in 2002, but the Israelis prefer continuous occupation out of greed for Palestinian land, water resources, etc. as the Jewish settlements keep growing and metastasizing.
Matthew Yglesias » American Public Prepared to Support Israel in Endless War With Arabs
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Obama: What you've seen is a metastasizing of al Qaeda, where a range of loosely affiliated groups now have the capacity and the ambition to recruit and train for attacks that may not be on the scale of a 9/11, but obviously can still be extraordinarily ...
Obama's Wars: Partial Interview transcript; President Obama and Bob Woodward
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