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a plant or animal that is different from other plants or animals of the same kind because of a change in the structure of its genes; something produced by genetic mutation
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Recent Examples of mutant
Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2025
Those movies were produced by 20th Century Fox, which licensed the mutant characters prior to the studio’s 2019 merger with Disney.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 28 July 2025
Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025
The film, a reimagining of the 1984 horror-comedy, is a raucous ride about Winston Gooze (Peter Dinklage), a down-on-his-luck janitor who's transformed into a super-powered mutant after falling into a vat of chemicals.
—EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Noun
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
Those movies were produced by 20th Century Fox, which licensed the mutant characters prior to the studio’s 2019 merger with Disney.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 28 July 2025
Adjective
Peter Dinklage stars as Winston Gooze, a janitor who gets transformed into a grotesque mutant after a bizarre accident.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025
The film, a reimagining of the 1984 horror-comedy, is a raucous ride about Winston Gooze (Peter Dinklage), a down-on-his-luck janitor who's transformed into a super-powered mutant after falling into a vat of chemicals.
—EW.com, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mutant
Noun
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Clovers typically have three leaves, but a rare mutation occasionally produces a fourth, and so the elusive four-leaf clover has long been associated with good luck and happiness in Celtic cultures.—
Rebecca Cairns,
CNN Money,
1 Sep. 2025
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In this instance, Winston, after his mutation, is looking clean house on Bob Garbinger (Kevin Bacon), a corrupt businessman whose haphazard ways led to his terminal illness and skirts treating him for it.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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According to the Cleveland Clinic, Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that can trigger unexpected seizures, caused by temporary abnormal electrical conditions in the brain.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Not an abnormal deviation from traditional Israeli-Palestinian dynamics but their culmination.—
Hussein Agha,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Carlo is credited with healing a 4-year-old Brazilian boy who had a serious pancreatic malformation and a 21-year-old Costa Rican woman who was near death after a bicycle accident.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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The leading causes of infant mortality in Mississippi are congenital malformations, preterm birth, low birth weight and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), according to the state’s news release, in line with CDC data on the top causes nationwide.—
Deidre McPhillips,
CNN Money,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The answer is that France at this time was attempting to heal its wartime wounds, papering over the cracks in the social fabric that had opened up during the German Occupation and positioning itself as a nation of resisters, in which collaborators had been few and aberrant.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 July 2025
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Furthermore, some data suggests that the spice's rare toxicity may be linked to aberrant immune responses to curcumin, which may lead immune cells to attack the liver.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
10 July 2025
Noun
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Labubu is a doll that resembles a monster, featuring a large head, sharp teeth and prominent eyes.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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Four years later, when Pop Mart began selling Labubus on key rings, the toothy monsters began to be seen everywhere — and the phenomenon really has taken off lately.—
Fortune,
Fortune,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Players such as Cristiano Ronaldo (40), Luka Modric (39), Lionel Messi (38) and indeed Milner are freakish exceptions.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
14 Aug. 2025
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Consumer spending this year has been weak, but that could have been because of freakish weather.—
John Dorfman,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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And Armstrong Archives documented machine learning improving extraction accuracy through anomaly detection.—
Douglas B. Laney,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Even with a relatively small sample size, the anomaly stuck out like a giant, red, throbbing sore thumb — a favorite gag in animation.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Stark white leather uppers contrast with shiny asymmetrical green and red accents, plus whimsical bumblebee motifs.—
Amina Ayoud,
Glamour,
3 Sep. 2025
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These trends can create long-duration investment theses with asymmetric upside, especially as nations prioritize mineral independence and secure supply chains.—
Sahit Muja,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Mutant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutant. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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