as in to change
to pass from one form, state, or level to another
colored lights that slowly mutate from green to blue and so on across the color spectrum
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Recent Examples of mutate
In the games, the virus is used as a type of biological warfare that can mutate those exposed to it.
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Feb. 2026
This discovery will aid researchers in learning how bacteria began to mutate and branch out into various strains that lead to diseases that communicate differently.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 24 Jan. 2026
In the games, the ghost town operates as an ever-mutating mindspace.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026
Antisemitism is a toxic virus that continues to mutate.
—Brian Siegal, Sun Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2026
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Feb. 2026
This discovery will aid researchers in learning how bacteria began to mutate and branch out into various strains that lead to diseases that communicate differently.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 24 Jan. 2026
In the games, the ghost town operates as an ever-mutating mindspace.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 Jan. 2026
Antisemitism is a toxic virus that continues to mutate.
—Brian Siegal, Sun Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mutate
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Even an all-out air war with a major global oil producer likely won't change that.—
Matt Peterson,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2026
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And none of them have ever changed the laws or constants of physics in a way that has persisted to the present day.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
5 Mar. 2026
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While their genre peers’ fates have varied, Mumford & Sons remained perennial arena and festival headliners, with an ambitious midcareer streak in the studio.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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Prices vary from region to region, but even a relatively small stump, only 18 inches in diameter, can cost hundreds of dollars to remove professionally.—
Daniel Scott,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Mar. 2026
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According to the researchers, shifting the blockchain processes closer to the hardware level resulted in performance improvements of up to 500 times and energy efficiency gains of as much as 10,000 percent compared with conventional implementations.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Mar. 2026
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The Republican Party could be in danger of losing one of its two Asian American House members due to redistricting in California that shifted two Republicans into a rare incumbent vs incumbent primary.—
Rachel Schilke,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Mutate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutate. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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