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Bancel said to the Financial Times that the omicron variant’s unruly swarm of mutations has worried scientists, many of whom did not expect such a highly mutative variant to emerge for another year or two.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2021

Some of the appendages display the kind of mutative powers that make the term "leg" redundant.

From Chicago Tribune • Jul. 1, 2011

He glanced back apprehensively, half expecting to find the limp white things crawling after him in sightless pursuit or snaking up through the treetops in a writhing and ungovernable mutative mass.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Such very rich genera however, are not the rule, but are exceptional cases, indicating the rarity of powerful mutative changes.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

These two main factors are consequently to be assumed in all hypothetic conceptions of previous mutative periods.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de