Examples of mutate in a Sentence
a disease that mutates genes in humans
a group of mutated genes
Over time, her feelings mutated from hatred into love.
opera singers mutating into pop stars
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Gradually, the music mutates into something more alien: off-key chiming of a clock, percussive piano clanking and plucking, atonal saxophone solos that sound as if an instrument is being dropped.
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Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
If both viruses were to appear in one host, the bird flu virus could mutate into a pathogen that's more easily transmissible among humans.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
That move mutated into the side-step 3 that many stars now shoot as well.
—Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 20 Feb. 2025
These lead to different combinations—with H1N1 and H3N2 presently the most common subtypes in humans—and allow influenza A to mutate more often, which is why our bodies can struggle to recognize it and fight off an infection.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
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Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
If both viruses were to appear in one host, the bird flu virus could mutate into a pathogen that's more easily transmissible among humans.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
That move mutated into the side-step 3 that many stars now shoot as well.
—Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 20 Feb. 2025
These lead to different combinations—with H1N1 and H3N2 presently the most common subtypes in humans—and allow influenza A to mutate more often, which is why our bodies can struggle to recognize it and fight off an infection.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
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“Mutate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mutate. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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