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Compared to his Mancunian peers, whose output conjured images of decaying industrial plants and mutant discos, this new Durutti Column suggested the domestic.—Brad Shoup, Pitchfork, 24 Jan. 2026 Today, the market has evolved into something like a mutant combination of art collecting and the stock market.—Clio Chang, Curbed, 23 Jan. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for mutant
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Etymology
Latin mutant-, mutans, present participle of mutare