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Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Rebecca Romijn, Alan Cumming, James Marsden, Kelsey Grammer, and Channing Tatum are among the stars reprising their mutant roles from various X-Men projects.—Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026 Professors Melissa Harrison and Peter Lewis used fruit flies to to study how cellular pathways are misregulated by a cancer-causing mutant protein.—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 7 Jan. 2026 There’s also a massive leg lumbering in the distance which could be a Sentinel, the gigantic, mutant-hunting robots that are some of X-Men’s most iconic villains.—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 6 Jan. 2026 That tower, too, invoked a 1,000-year-old style to disguise its mutant dimensions.—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 3 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mutant
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Etymology
Latin mutant-, mutans, present participle of mutare