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
By Alice Park January 8, 2025 1:29 PM EST
Any time a person catches H5N1, or bird flu, their infection is a chance for the virus to mutate in the wrong direction.
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Alice Park, TIME, 8 Jan. 2025
Tweaks like those are core to the H-1B, a visa that’s mutated over the years.
—Rafael Bernal, The Hill, 30 Dec. 2024
Evidence shows the virus likely mutated within the Louisiana patient, who developed serious illness from their bird flu infection earlier this month.
—Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
That matters, because scientists are working on therapies targeting some of the 40-plus genes that, when mutated, cause ALS.
—Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2025
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Alice Park, TIME, 8 Jan. 2025
Tweaks like those are core to the H-1B, a visa that’s mutated over the years.
—Rafael Bernal, The Hill, 30 Dec. 2024
Evidence shows the virus likely mutated within the Louisiana patient, who developed serious illness from their bird flu infection earlier this month.
—Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
That matters, because scientists are working on therapies targeting some of the 40-plus genes that, when mutated, cause ALS.
—Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mutate
Verb
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The market landscape underwent shifts, however, and these changed the demands on Rwazi’s platform.—
Chris Gallagher,
USA TODAY,
18 Jan. 2025
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The bottom line, though, is Butler’s thinking hasn’t changed.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
18 Jan. 2025
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Food and wine options are robust, varying depending on the season and specific route.—
Brad Japhe,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Jan. 2025
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On The Water Apart from that sense of solitude, a major part of the appeal is clearly the location: on a peninsula with one side fronting the calm, pure turquoise water of the Caicos Bank; the other side, the rolling waves of the Atlantic in varying shades of blue.—
Laurie Werner,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile, the Bills had shifted their offensive line protection toward the All-Pro Jones, which allowed the space for him and Reid to run free.—
Jesse Newell,
Kansas City Star,
27 Jan. 2025
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Now the market has shifted toward cotton grown with regenerative practices.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Mutate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mutate. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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