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• Mutated contractions often form diminutive and pejorative terms, such as "Newfie" and "fundie".From the entry mutated contraction
• The mutating process that cells undergo can lead to cancer.From the entry mutating
• The begin() member of std::string returns a mutating iterator.From the entry mutating
• Fragrances can mutate; seizure and ricing are more common; and the soap batter traces rapidly.2012, Alicia Grosso, The Everything Soapmaking Book, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry ricing
• The most intriging mutated gene is called an "unc" gene for uncoordinated.1999, Aloi, Jane Elizabeth, Student study guide to accompany general zoology. From the entry unc
• Fen gather in clubhouses called slanshacks, "slan" meaning a biologically mutated superman.1955, Arthur Koestler, The Trail of the Dinosaur and Other Essays, page 143. From the entry slan
• But the mutating illegal drug supply is regularly conjuring new drugs with novel sets of potentially deadly risks.2025 December 22, Mattha Busby, “‘It’s made things worse for everyone’: Philadelphia grapples with rise of new street drug. Medetomidine…. From the entry medetomidine
• Humans who are infected by the Reapers mutate into "Husks," which look like zombies covered with visible blue cybernetic parts.2023, Sarah Stang, “Desirable and Undesirable Cyborg Bodies in the Mass Effect Video Game Trilogy”, in Julia A. Empey, Russell J. A.…. From the entry me
• Straightforward Serbian nationalism, in this pressure-cooker, mutated into Yugoslavism.2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 381. From the entry Yugoslavism
• But this fear can itself mutate into a psychopathology.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 91. From the entry psychopathology
• Studies in various cats (tigers, cheetahs and domestic cats) showed that one of these genes has mutated and no longer works.2011, Karl Kruszelnicki, Brain Food, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry cat
• Smithe’s theory was that End of Time had come into the world slightly mutated, due to maternal consumption of contaminated fish.2000, Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 93. From the entry witchwork
• He could have set their plain grey container on a shelf high enough that no bat-eared mutate could have laid eyes on it.2016 March 17, Dueld taJoot, “MSNPC Tresh, "All Items Half Off" (tags Xon, Alal, Mendes)”, in Outpost Eden (Google Groups), archived from…. From the entry earwaxy
• The vowel of blog can mutate, as when law blogs are called blawgs or requests via blog posts are called blegs (combining blog and beg).[2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine. From the entry blawg
• But now evolution has stepped in, the reds are starting to mutate into bright ginger versions of themselves – and they’re here to stay.2009 April 26, “Ginger squirrels pose new threat”, in Sunday Sport, Manchester: Sport Newspapers Limited, page 3. From the entry ginger
• Consequently, in order to learn of a cytoplasmic determinant serving a specific hereditary function, one must detect it in a mutated form.1965, Arnold Warren Ravin, The Evolution of Genetics. From the entry cytoplasmic determinant
• One by one, the people in this small French town are mutating into rhinoceroses and congregating in herds in the street, smashing and destroying everything they find.2017 August 10, David Pollock, “Edinburgh Festival, Rhinoceros, Royal Lyceum Theatre, review: 'Far smarter than a one-note topical…. From the entry dishevelledness
• It’s common to decry our collective thaasophobia, or fear of boredom, manifested in our addiction to iPhone apps, the cable news crawl and ever mutating varieties of multitasking.2010 January 21, Jennifer Schuessler, “Our Boredom, Ourselves”, in New York Times Book Review, Jan 24, 2010, archived from the original on…. From the entry thaasophobia
• Along with the unicorns, came the half-breed and mutated forms of unicorn: the bicorns and tricorns, and all the different breeds of ridgebacks, split-hooves, and pegasus.2007, Grace Fleming, The Travels of Fiere, Waxhaw, N.C.: Otherland Books, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry bicorn
• In pseudolysogeny, the host cell can mutate to an adhesion-impaired or deficient state (depicted by a wavy cell surface), whereby collisions result in a low success rate of infection.2001, John Paul, Marine Microbiology, page 106. From the entry pseudolysogeny
• The H and N components, which Professor Oxford says are shaped like "Toblerones and mushrooms", are the ones that mutate and cause problems for the human immune system.2000 January 9, “The killer shaped like a Toblerone”, in The Independent. From the entry Toblerone
• Is it possible that architecture can mutate into equal parts GPS, abstract machine, event horizon, and vague placeform, a kind of quadfurcation of the purpose of building?1999, Neil M. Denari, Gyroscopic Horizons, Princeton Architectural Press, illustrated, page 12. From the entry quadfurcation

Meaning of mutate

1. verb To undergo mutation.
2. verb To cause mutation.

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Questions about mutate in a sentence

How do you use mutate in a sentence?

Mutate is used as a verb. For example: “The virus has mutated into a more resilient version.”

What is a short sentence with mutate?

“But this fear can itself mutate into a psychopathology.”

What does mutate mean?

Mutate means to undergo mutation.