How to Use mutate in a Sentence
mutate
verb- Over time, her feelings mutated from hatred into love.
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There are so many things that are mutating.
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Anthony D'alessandro,
Deadline,
13 May 2026
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With such slow rates of growth, there are few chances to mutate the genome and evolve.
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Jeffrey Marlow,
Discover Magazine,
23 Mar. 2017
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But of course, the virus has learned, as viruses do, to mutate, to change.
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Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
17 June 2025
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Goalies stood up to stop shots, instead of mutating to block them.
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Louisa Thomas,
The New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2024
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Each year, the virus mutates slightly in a process called antigenic drift.
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Alexandra M. Lord,
CNN,
9 Feb. 2025
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But the form is alive and mutating elsewhere.
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Arkansas Online,
14 Aug. 2025
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As fun as these scenes are, the film could have done more with the mutating magic of it all.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
2 Apr. 2025
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That move mutated into the side-step 3 that many stars now shoot as well.
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Lev Akabas,
Sportico.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Every new infection is a chance for the virus to grow and mutate.
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Dr. Genevieve Yang,
ABC News,
3 June 2022
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The danger is that this gives the virus room to continue to spread and mutate.
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Joshua Yaffa,
The New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2021
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In this sense, AI would act like a virus that mutates against a vaccine.
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Kevin Williams,
CNBC,
24 July 2025
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In a reservoir, the virus can mutate and emerge as different strains.
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Elizabeth Gamillo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 Apr. 2022
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There’s no guarantee that the virus will mutate at a predictable rate.
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Melody Schreiber,
The New Republic,
28 Apr. 2021
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Nowadays, the birds would be mutated.
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Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Oct. 2025
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That's who continues to be a host to a virus that will continue to mutate.
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Kristen Jordan Shamus,
Detroit Free Press,
11 Jan. 2022
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The virus would likely mutate in other animal species, as it has been shown to do in mink.
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James Gorman,
New York Times,
8 Nov. 2020
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In more ways than one, this war has mutated into an ugly numbers game.
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Matthew Chance,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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Just as the common cold and flu mutate a little each year, coronavirus could do the same.
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USA Today,
25 Aug. 2020
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There the virus mutated and then a more lethal strain returned home later that summer.
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Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 Apr. 2020
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Rapid tests actually look for a part of the virus that is less likely to mutate and dodge the tests.
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Akshay Syal, M.d.,
NBC News,
13 Jan. 2024
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For one thing, the virus would have to mutate in a specific way to be able to infect human cells.
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Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Nov. 2021
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Tweaks like those are core to the H-1B, a visa that’s mutated over the years.
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Rafael Bernal,
The Hill,
30 Dec. 2024
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The absolute best upgrade is the one that doesn't mutate into a month-long garage project.
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Malana Vantyler,
USA Today,
24 June 2026
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Because the more people Covid infects, the more chances the virus has to mutate.
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Chris Cillizza,
CNN,
21 Dec. 2021
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Covid cases are again surging around the world, while the virus continues to mutate.
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Meenakshi Narula Ahamed,
CNN,
6 May 2021
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In the games, the ghost town operates as an ever-mutating mindspace.
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Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
23 Jan. 2026
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Lopatin has long sought to mutate popular culture into alien forms.
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Sam Goldner,
Pitchfork,
23 Dec. 2025
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Now, whether over the course of several years the virus could mutate or change, that remains an open question.
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Anna Kuchment,
Dallas News,
21 Sep. 2020
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The second option is for the virus to mutate within a dense group of animals.
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Evan Bush,
NBC News,
11 Feb. 2023
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