Examples of mutate in a Sentence
a disease that mutates genes in humans
a group of mutated genes
Over time, her feelings mutated from hatred into love.
opera singers mutating into pop stars
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The slaying of the serpent was a mythological superspreader, mutating and proliferating across the Indo-European world and beyond.
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Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Because flu viruses mutate frequently, the effectiveness of the flu vaccine can vary each year.
—Libby Richards, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
Nowadays, the birds would be mutated.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
Stardom has splintered, expanded, mutated in the decades since the fall of the studio system that minted and owned its stars under contract.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
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Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Because flu viruses mutate frequently, the effectiveness of the flu vaccine can vary each year.
—Libby Richards, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
Nowadays, the birds would be mutated.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
Stardom has splintered, expanded, mutated in the decades since the fall of the studio system that minted and owned its stars under contract.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Mutate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mutate. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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