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v. - Spread throughout the body.

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  • Gulags in history tend to metastasise, becoming ever larger and more secretive, ever more deadly and formalised.
  • Ivul is an eccentric, and exasperating in some ways, but I found something powerfully and unexpectedly real about the story's central conceit: that a single calamitous event,...
  • Democracy by its very nature both hosts and is vulnerable to a limitless range of counter-narratives, ranging from tiny political movements to global meta-narratives which, in...
  • Lobular carcinoma is more likely to metastasise to the gastrointestinal tract.
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