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

But when you take a step backwards and you look at the gameplay, a station wagon is mutable.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 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

Only the waters are ours; and how may one build on something so mutable?

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson