mutate
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, -tə-tiv
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adjective
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change, fluctuate, shift, snap, vary
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In a healthy human, B cells are essential aspects of the normal immune system; in patients like Emily, those B cells had mutated and become cancerous. — Charles Graeber, WIRED, "How Scientists Built a ‘Living Drug’ to Beat Cancer," 25 July 2019 These strains arise when the weakened live virus used in the oral polio vaccine (OPV) mutates and regains its virulence. — Leslie Roberts, Science | AAAS, "Surging cases have dashed all hope that polio might be eradicated in 2019," 10 July 2019 But if two carriers have a child, there’s a chance the child could inherit both mutated copies from their parents and could end up with the disease. — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, "George Church Wants to Make Genetic Matchmaking a Reality," 15 Apr. 2019 And many such findings have reinforced just how quickly pathogens mutate and evolve in response to environmental cues. — Quanta Magazine, "Vaccines Are Pushing Pathogens to Evolve," 10 May 2018 Drug-resistant infections kill 23,000 Americans each year and sicken 2 million, according to the C.D.C. As more germs mutate, the threat is growing. — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, "Spraying Antibiotics to Fight Citrus Scourge Doesn’t Help, Study Finds," 16 Aug. 2019 As language continues to mutate with the times, words like 'influence' become tarnished, used to describe any old John/Jane Doe with a few thousand Instagram/Twitter followers. — SI.com, "Rinus Michels: The Most Influential Manager There Ever Was & His Total Football Legacy," 14 Aug. 2019 Partisan politics provides the oxygen to keep prejudices alive, mutating and more powerful. — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, "Letters: Target the employers in raids; Toni Morrison’s brilliance; Perfecting and weaponizing prejudice; Grateful architecture fan(8/12/19)," 12 Aug. 2019 There are more than 200 known driver genes in humans, the genes that when mutated increase cancer cell fitness. — Megan Molteni, WIRED, "How a 6,000-Year-Old Dog Cancer Spread Around the World," 1 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'mutate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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