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- verb 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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Either somebody spends money to grow the economy or the metastasizing cancer of a jobless nation will plague us indefinitely.
Brent Budowsky: Jobs: A Grand Bargain Brent Budowsky 2011
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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 Michelle Chen 2010
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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 Michelle Chen 2010
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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 John L. Esposito 2011
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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... Lydia Fisher 2011
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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? Michelle Chen 2012
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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 John L. Esposito 2011
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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... Lydia Fisher 2011
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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 John L. Esposito 2011
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