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The teenage mutant turtle variety had taken over Saturday morning TV and waves of shoddy martials arts flicks filled the shelves at video stores.—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2025 Most of the sunflowers on Van Gogh’s canvases are a mutant double-flowered type.—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 2 Aug. 2025 He's restrained by soldiers and his intensifying emotions unleash his mutant ability.—ArsTechnica, 20 July 2025 What follows are two more hours of close encounters of the mutant dino kind as the cast of characters races to finish the mission and get off the island alive.—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 3 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for mutant
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Etymology
Latin mutant-, mutans, present participle of mutare
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