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Eastman and Laird created a comic based on four mutant turtles that possess keen martial arts abilities, which was meant to be a one-shot, but ended up becoming a phenomenon.—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025 The sci-fi series has given us everything from mutant super-soldiers to all-out war between a farmer and an army of rats.—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025 Dead Ringers, which marked a new peak of technical and dramatic sophistication for Cronenberg, has its moments of vintage corporeal unpleasantness (see, and never unsee, the instruments for operating on mutant women).—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025 Winning the battle against extinction is going to require more from us than manufacturing mutant wolves and hairy mice.—Douglas McCauley, Time, 27 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mutant
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Etymology
Latin mutant-, mutans, present participle of mutare
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