How to Use mutate in a Sentence

mutate

verb

• Over time, her feelings mutated from hatred into love.
• That strain—the same that mutated to spread from mink to mink—is present in Asia, too.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 1 Mar. 2023
• The internet will evolve or mutate around a need for it.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2022
• Every new infection is a chance for the virus to grow and mutate.
  — Dr. Genevieve Yang, ABC News, 3 June 2022
• The virus is mutating now at a more constant rate, akin to the pace of evolution of the flu virus, Dr. Lessler said.
  — Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• In a reservoir, the virus can mutate and emerge as different strains.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2022
• Together, their goal is to mutate all of the animals in the world and take over the Earth as the prominent species.
  — Amanda Luberto, The Arizona Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
• In plain English that means spots that don’t mutate from variant to variant, so the mabs can still lock on.
  — Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2022
• The second option is for the virus to mutate within a dense group of animals.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2023
• That's who continues to be a host to a virus that will continue to mutate.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 11 Jan. 2022
• There’s always the potential that the virus will mutate and become more of a risk to humans.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
• In the memoirs, the Biden code can mutate into a kind of cryptography.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
• But, doctors warn, the virus continues to mutate and the risk of stillbirth remains.
  — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2022
• If white-tailed deer become a reservoir for the virus, the pathogen could mutate and spread to other animals or back to us.
  — New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
• Now there is concern that the virus can mutate in deers and reinfect humans.
  — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2022
• For one thing, viruses can mutate, which is why a new flu vaccine must be produced each year.
  — Jonah Bader, CNN, 25 Nov. 2022
• Covid has continued to mutate since its emergence on the global stage more than three years ago.
  — Madison Muller, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023
• The typical bird genome is a string of more than a billion base pairs that mutate randomly over time.
  — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
• Simply put, the virus can’t mutate its way out of the multiple attacks the drugs make on its ability to replicate.
  — Dan Werb, Time, 16 Mar. 2022
• Normal life will be possible even as the virus continues to spread and mutate.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2022
• Outbreaks on crowded mink farms are an ideal scenario for bird flu to mutate.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2023
• Just the same, two different strands of conspiracist DNA have merged and mutated.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2023
• Many polls show that Americans are ready to leave the pandemic behind, even if the virus continues to spread and mutate in the future.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 11 Oct. 2022
• Too Old to Die Young) tend to mutate beyond their original premises.
  — Lane Brown, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2023
• High rates of vaccination around the globe can help tamp down spread and therefore the opportunity the virus has to mutate.
  — Sarah Toy, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2022
• By virtue of the sheer number of people infected, a surge increases the number of times the virus replicates and offers it more chances to mutate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• There may be an advantage to vaccinating poultry to reduce the chances that the virus could mutate.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023
• The other twin had one mutated and one normal copy of the CCR5 gene, weakening the prospect of immunity.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
• These are the vulnerable regions of the spike that don’t mutate as much, but that our immune systems are not great at spotting on their own.
  — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Oct. 2022
• Viruses, too, can mutate and evolve, far faster than animals can.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024