mutable
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It suspends us in that mutable realm, placing us—restlessly, almost hypnotically—in the ever-moving present.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
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
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
Because of this I suspect its allegorical potency will be perceived as a bit too mutable.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 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
Vocabulary lists containing mutable
Power Suffix: -able
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