mutable
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The highly mutable nature of street life and the participatory character of the show means its tone can shift drastically from tour to tour, even within the same night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
Mr. Picton’s approach to structure is aggressively mutable, but his arrangements are almost entirely acoustic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
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
For decades, researchers considered mouse songs instinctual, the fixed tunes of a windup music box, rather than the mutable expressions of individual minds.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
Muller’s experiments demonstrated that heredity could be manipulated quite easily: the mutation rate was itself quite mutable.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing mutable
Power Suffix: -able
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