malignancy
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Synonyms for malignancy
Synonyms
cattiness, despite, hatefulness, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignance, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness, spleen, venom, viciousness
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Her narrative is the narrative of American malignancy. — Rich Lowry, National Review, "Ilhan Omar Is Completely Assimilated," 16 July 2019 Eighty-five per cent of drug-resistant patients with multiple myeloma—a malignancy of the blood’s plasma cells—have either a complete or a partial response to the therapy, but more than a third of complete responders relapse within a year. — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, "The Promise and Price of Cellular Therapies," 15 July 2019 The treatments managed to control the malignancy but not cure it, and life became a matter of coping. — Bruce Berger, WSJ, "‘Escalante’s Dream’ Review: Long Road Through the West," 12 July 2019 Skin cancer is the most common malignancy in the United States, affecting more than three million people each year. — Aaron E. Carroll, New York Times, "How Safe Is Sunscreen?," 10 June 2019 Researchers found that an enzyme involved in building cell membranes becomes abnormally active in various malignancies. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Biotech notebook: Cancer discovery, bacterial syringes and organoids," 13 July 2019 Yet this uncommon malignancy is the tie that binds giants of oncology research, scientific breakthroughs, revolutionary drugs, and startling philanthropy, not to mention a Pulitzer Prize-winning book that became an acclaimed PBS documentary series. — Marie Mccullough, https://www.inquirer.com, "How conquering a rare leukemia in children revolutionized cancer care for millions," 6 June 2019 Today, 90 percent of children with the blood malignancy, called acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), are cured. — Marie Mccullough, https://www.inquirer.com, "How conquering a rare leukemia in children revolutionized cancer care for millions," 6 June 2019 New, Scarier Possibilities Right at the top of Quan’s list was malignancy. — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, "What Was the Cause of the Excruciating Pain in His Shoulders and Hips?," 5 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'malignancy.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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