How to Use mutate in a Sentence
mutate
verb- Over time, her feelings mutated from hatred into love.
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The danger is that this gives the virus room to continue to spread and mutate.
— Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021 -
There’s no guarantee that the virus will mutate at a predictable rate.
— Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2021 -
And every infection a vaccine prevents is one less chance for the virus to mutate.
— Melody Schreiber, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2021 -
Viruses mutate all the time, and most mutations aren't very important.
— Holly Yan, CNN, 12 Apr. 2021 -
The longer the period of sustained community spread, the more likely the virus will mutate.
— USA Today, 22 Apr. 2021 -
In the ensuing half century, humans were able to keep ahead of the microorganisms and their mutating ways in this arms race.
— Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024 -
The concept is especially nebulous when dealing with a virus that can mutate into different forms.
— Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2021 -
But in cinema, the monster movie has mutated into an uncontainable genre behemoth all its own.
— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2024 -
Those that circulate in animals are more likely to mutate in dangerous ways while evading human detection.
— Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2021 -
Because the inside protein is less likely to mutate than the spike protein, the vaccine could potentially be more effective against coronavirus variants, experts say.
— Thomas Curwen, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2021 -
That strain—the same that mutated to spread from mink to mink—is present in Asia, too.
— Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 1 Mar. 2023 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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