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inoculate

[ih-nok-yuh-leyt] / ɪˈnɒk yəˌleɪt /
VERB
immunize
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During Strategy’s first-quarter earnings call in May, Saylor said the company would “probably sell some bitcoin to fund a dividend just to inoculate the market, just to send the message that we did it.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026

This underscores why technology like mRNA vaccine scaffolds, the technology used to inoculate against COVID, is so important.

From Salon • May 20, 2026

The government was determined not to budge, perhaps hopeful much of it was noise and their mountainous majority would inoculate them from a minority of grumblers.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025

They’re upgraded preparations of vaccines that themselves underwent placebo-controlled trials, or formulations aimed at new variants of the targeted disease, or shots that inoculate against several diseases all at once.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025

In retrospect, Fenn told me, “One of George Washington’s most brilliant moves was to inoculate the army against smallpox during the Valley Forge winter of ’78.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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