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 danger is that this gives the virus room to continue to spread and mutate.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• Because the more people Covid infects, the more chances the virus has to mutate.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 21 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Goalies stood up to stop shots, instead of mutating to block them.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
• Rapid tests actually look for a part of the virus that is less likely to mutate and dodge the tests.
  — Akshay Syal, M.d., NBC News, 13 Jan. 2024
• 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
• The longer someone is infected, the greater the chance that the virus infecting them can mutate.
  — Maggie Fox, CNN, 20 Jan. 2021
• 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
• For one thing, the virus would have to mutate in a specific way to be able to infect human cells.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2021
• 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
• There’s no guarantee that the virus will mutate at a predictable rate.
  — Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2021
• In the memoirs, the Biden code can mutate into a kind of cryptography.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
• Covid cases are again surging around the world, while the virus continues to mutate.
  — Meenakshi Narula Ahamed, CNN, 6 May 2021
• On the other hand, the virus could mutate to render the vaccines much less effective.
  — Jason Douglas, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2021
• As the pandemic rages in many parts of the world, India and beyond, the virus will continue to mutate.
  — Jeffrey D. Sachs, CNN, 12 May 2021
• The genes for the proteins in this pathway are mutated in at least 30% of human cancers.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Apr. 2024
• Like all viruses, H5N1 has the potential to mutate to become more of a threat to humans.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 3 Apr. 2024
• 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
• All viruses mutate over time, creating variants that have popped up in Ohio and around the world.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 18 Feb. 2021
• Now there is concern that the virus can mutate in deers and reinfect humans.
  — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2022
• Some may even say this distrust has mutated into a ruthlessness that leaves him an island of one.
  — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 28 Sep. 2024
• The risk that the virus will mutate to spread easily between people is low, but experts say ongoing transmission in cows is worrisome.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024