mutable

Example Sentences

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Mr. Picton’s approach to structure is aggressively mutable, but his arrangements are almost entirely acoustic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

The staging is a practical arrangement, but it is also a presentation meant to convey gravitas and to ensure everyone can keep an eye on their mutable front man.

From Salon • May 13, 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

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