metastasize

Example Sentences

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"The good fortune was that it was not very old, and the other thing is that it had not metastasized. It hadn't moved, nothing into bones or anything like that."

From BBC

Investors’ minds inevitably flashed back to 2008, when the implosion of the U.S. mortgage-backed securities market quickly metastasized globally.

From Barron's

Sakaguchi said that he wanted to continue researching how to enhance immune responses in cancer and to potentially prevent cancer cells from spreading and metastasizing.

From The Wall Street Journal

A bureaucratic error had metastasized into a kind of social sentence.

From Salon

By October 2023, her scans showed that the cancer had metastasized in her spine, through her hips and into her lymph nodes.

From Los Angeles Times