mutant
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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
We open in a post-apocalyptic Pasadena, following a hooded character through a dark landscape of burned out cars and mutant distractions to Stuart’s somehow still-open comic book store.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
To test this idea, he introduced the yeast version of the protein, called Pex11, into the mutant plant cells.
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
A glider...my brain grappled with the shape of the thing, a Concorde...a mutant angel falling to earth….
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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
He endorsed normal Senate candidates over lab-born mutants in swing-state primaries, and stopped feuding with old enemies in the name of party unity.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2024
As with flies, the bacterial mutants proved revealing.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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