Synonyms for mutate
ˈmyu teɪtmu·tate

Princeton's WordNet

1. mutateverb

   undergo mutation

   "cells mutate"

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1. Matthew Kaufler:

   The geopolitical situation is the risk that keeps me up at night, as it continues to mutate in scary directions. It is clearly the wild card.

2. Gregory Poland:

   What people fundamentally don't understand is that when there is this high level of community transmission, this will mutate, who knows what's going to come next. We are playing with fire.

3. Lawrence Young:

   Overall the SARS-CoV-2 virus does not mutate at a high rate... and there is currently no compelling evidence that the mutations have had a significant effect.

4. Paul Hunter:

   If the requirement on infected individuals to isolate at home is lifted as indicated, it will be an experiment which will either be shown to be very brave or very stupid, but nobody knows for sure what the result will be, omicron may be on the wane in Europe but other parts of Our World in Data are still in the full flush of a surge in infections. In such circumstances, as we have seen before, the virus is in the best possible position to mutate again, and there is absolutely no certainty that any new variant would be less dangerous.

5. Terry Jones:

   Knowledge from the past can protect us in the present. When an animal or plant goes extinct, it isn't coming back. But mutations can re-occur or revert and viruses can mutate or spill over from the animal reservoir so there will always be another zoonosis( disease caused by viruses that jumped from animal hosts into human hosts).