metastasized

The word "metastasized" was the one in the report that first caught my eye, and ear.

Christopher Hitchens On Cancer: Hair Loss, 'Chemo-Poison,' & The 'Alien' Inside Him 2010

His reputation "metastasized" (his word) when he took on AIG four years before the insurance giant was universally acknowledged as the Death Star at the center of the financial collapse.

Spitzer in Exile 2009

It is tougher to get coverage if the cancer metastasized, meaning it spread to another part of the body, but a few carriers will still provide coverage if there's been no treatment in the past 10 years, he says.

Getting Long-Term-Care 2007

Franzen spoke of Wallace's final months, when his depression had "metastasized" and phone conversations became lifelines.

Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2008

Hugh Pickens writes "CNET reports that Daphne Keller, a senior policy counsel at Google, says ACTA has 'metastasized' from a proposal to address border security and counterfeit goods to an sweeping international legal framework for copyright and the Internet that could

Slashdot: Your Rights Online 2010

Spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro said the cancer was discovered on 22 December, and follow-up tests showed that it has not spread to her lymph nodes, nor has it metastasized.

Cristina Kirchner to be treated for thyroid cancer 2011

"This form is present in large amounts in primary tumors that have spread or metastasized," said Y.

Study Finds Way To Predict When Cancer Will Spread Meghan Neal 2011

That was before the financial sector metastasized to gobble up 40% of the nation's profits, and before the growth of derivatives and similar transactions made the disconnect between "real world" economic activity and non-reality-based financial dealings so extreme.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Automated Greed Factories: How Soulless Banking Is Crushing the Economy RJ 2010

From what I understand, most Tea Partiers are against big, metastasized government, and against the current regime, just as Michael Moore and other principled Progs have been against a less controlling-engineering-redistributionist one.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Timothy McVeigh Was No Libertarian: The Fallacy of Conflating Two Very Different Types of “Anti-Government” Movements 2010

Like our metastasized national debt, it is another way of ripping off the future for the benefit of a corrupt few in the present.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Outrageous Treaty Nonsense, or The Copyright Tail Wagging the Internet Dog 2010