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mutant

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


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But Reilly, who calls himself a coward and claims to be no hero, regards his mutant abilities as “a part of me I wish never existed. With no power, there’s no responsibility.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026

These mutant cells also lacked vesicles, small membrane-bound compartments that typically form inside the peroxisome during fatty acid processing.

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

Researchers have also found that increasing the amount of a partially functional mutant MeCP2 protein can lead to improvements in survival, movement, and breathing problems in mice.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2026

“I suppose that was a faulty comparison. It’s not for flies. It’s for mutant moles.”

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

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

About another five mutants increased TLR7 sensitivity but to a lesser degree.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

The peculiar feature of the mutants, he discovered, was that the essential plan of macroscopic structures was often maintained—only the segment switched its position or identity in the body of the fly.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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