mutable
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“A Child’s Christmas in Wales” aptly reflects the way that holiday images randomly flare up and recede within the bright hearth of recollection, memories made mutable by the passage of time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
The staging is a practical arrangement, but it is also a presentation meant to convey gravitas and to ensure everyone can keep an eye on their mutable front man.
From Salon ● May 13, 2025
Still, “It showed that those sites are mutable in these viruses,” says Tom Peacock, an influenza virologist at the Pirbright Institute.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 5, 2024
Godzilla belongs to Japan in the same way that, say, the Doctor of “Doctor Who” will always be British, even though that character is from a different planet and mutable in every other respect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
They have a sense that the length of a day is mutable, and you can never see the end from the beginning.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
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Power Suffix: -able
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