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mutant

[myoot-nt] / ˈmjut nt /
NOUN
mutation
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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The Welsh actor said he spent about half of his time on the set with the special effects make-up team, transforming into the mutant villain.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

The movie’s biggest reveal involves the identity of the villain played by Sadie Sink — and plenty of questions remain about her future and what her appearance means for a certain fan-favorite mutant superhero team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Tharp engineered two types of mutant plants, each missing a particular set of PEX11 genes.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026

Peter Nowell, a pathologist, argued in 1976 that cancers arise from a single mutant cell and then evolve, as offspring acquire new mutations and compete for dominance—a prediction that single-cell sequencing has dramatically confirmed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026

I scooted away from it because palmetto bugs looked like mutant roaches, and even though they didn’t bite, they were still freakishly big.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

"In our PEX11 mutants, these vesicles either don't form or are abnormally small and rare, and so we see these massive peroxisomes, way larger than normal."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026

The series itself has gotten so bored with the beasties that it continues to invent new ugly mutants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025

The surface is now home to scavengers, soldiers, mutants, and ghouls, all doing their best to survive on spoiled food, brackish water, and whatever’s left in long-abandoned vending machines.

From Salon ● May 12, 2025

"It was a proper disaster, but it didn't cause strange glowing plants or mutants or dangerous cults to emerge."

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2025

Both were bad news for ancient farmers, who would thereby have promptly lost any favorable mutants without understanding why.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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