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variants

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Recent Examples of variants Like most other variants, the symptoms of the Cicada variant are the same as those of other COVID-19 variant infections. — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2026 New variants include the TMP era variant and STO era variant, as well as a remaster of the TOS era variant. — David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025

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Data center power infrastructure provider Dimaag, for example, presented in April a way to protect the grid from AI’s massive load variations, which can switch from almost nothing to hundreds of megawatts and back again several times per second.

— Drew Robb, IEEE Spectrum, 16 July 2026
Five neutral color variations all come in a linen blend, but olive’s grounding tones are speaking most to us.

— Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 16 July 2026

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That probably has something to do with Peter waking up in weird situations with his organic spider-mutations happening.

— Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
However, the growing number of patients receiving these treatments still run the risk of passing their disease-causing mutations to their children.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 8 July 2026

Definition of mutations

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Reuniting with longtime collaborator Jake Schreier and writing alongside The Bear‘s Joanna Calo, Lee said the team is approaching the iconic mutants by putting their humanity ahead of spectacle.

— Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 8 July 2026
But these genes were not mutants to start with in the human embryos that Egli’s team edited.

— Paul Knoepfler, STAT, 24 June 2026

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