malignant
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In a post on X on Friday, Netanyahu said that during routine medical monitoring following successful surgery for an enlarged benign prostate, doctors found an early-stage malignant tumour.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
CAR-T therapy engineers a patient’s own T cells to target and destroy malignant cells, while checkpoint inhibitors remove the immune system’s brakes that tumors use to evade attack.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026
In any case, a person with the psychology of a malignant adolescent is unlikely to think very far past the conviction that wielding awesome powers of destruction is cool.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026
Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel has Dr. Frankenstein bicker with his creature about her potential existence before deciding against it in fear that “she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
If especially susceptible the cell may be killed outright, or finally, after the passage of time measured in years, it may become malignant.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing malignant
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