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
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
In the course of his restless, mutable career, Gordon, 72, has written all kinds of music, from classical pieces for solo piano or chamber orchestra to dance scores and experimental operas.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 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
Muller’s experiments demonstrated that heredity could be manipulated quite easily: the mutation rate was itself quite mutable.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Power Suffix: -able
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