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Six example sentences with mutate, each labelled with its topic.
Influenza viruses mutate so quickly that last winter's vaccine may barely recognize the strain circulating this year.
Science
In the sequel the alien spores mutate whenever players use fire, sprouting armored shells that shrug off the flamethrower.
Gaming
Bacteria in the treated river mutated within a few seasons, and the antibiotic that once cleared them stopped working.
Environment
Doctors rotate antibiotics because bacteria mutate under constant pressure, and a resistant strain can appear within a single hospital stay.
Medicine
In the film's second act the lab virus begins to mutate, and each new strain outruns the vaccine by a week.
Movies
Sourdough starters kept alive for decades slowly mutate, and bakers notice the flavor of the loaf drift year by year.
Cooking
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