mutable

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The highly mutable nature of street life and the participatory character of the show means its tone can shift drastically from tour to tour, even within the same night.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026

In other works, Rodin exploits the mutable process of modeling to supercharge his sculpture’s sense of organic change and physical force.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 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

Muller’s experiments demonstrated that heredity could be manipulated quite easily: the mutation rate was itself quite mutable.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee