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Immutable may describe something that is incapable of change, but the word itself—like all words—is mutable, both capable of and prone to alteration. To put a finer point on it, if language were fixed, we wouldn’t have immutable itself, which required a variety of mutations of the Latin verb mutare (“to change”) to reach our tongues (or pens, keyboards, or touchscreens—oh the many permutations of communication!). Other English words that can be traced back to mutare include mutate, transmute, and commute. Which reminds us—the mutability of language makes great food for thought during one’s commute.
Examples of immutable in a Sentence
Arkansas Online, 19 June 2025
Treating configs as immutable through CI/CD pipelines ensures all changes are tracked and reversible. - Anuj Tyagi
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—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
What remains immutable is the physics of computation itself: the energy required to power these systems.
—Aya Saed, Time, 17 June 2025
More to Explore This represents the securitization of gender: identity is linked with security because the government believes that knowing who people are helps assess risk, and gender is taken as an immutable marker of identity.
—Laura Clawson, JSTOR Daily, 7 June 2025
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“Immutable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/immutable. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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