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inoculate

[ih-nok-yuh-layt] / ɪˈnɒk jəˌleɪt /
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immunize
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Vaccination teams aim to inoculate about 5,000 little penguins closest to the visitor areas, the state official said, in a program that is likely to last weeks and months, not days.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

Haffkine developed a vaccine to combat the plague and Saklatvala went door-to-door, convincing people to inoculate themselves.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2024

They inoculate against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, specifically the KP.2 strain, which has been driving a large proportion of infections this summer.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2024

“How did you inoculate yourself against the death serum?” he asks me.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

“There’s mold spores and fungus spores, so that inoculates your pile full of that goodness,” she says.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

The familiarity inoculates them against the fear, which may then become fascination.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2022

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has promised lockdowns would be "less likely" once the country inoculates 70% of its population above 16 years, which now stands at 19%.

From Reuters ● Aug. 2, 2021

The hospital’s steady employment normally inoculates the region against economic downturns and keeps unemployment lower here than in surrounding counties, said Fred Gaffney, president of the Columbia Montour Chamber of Commerce.

From Washington Post ● May 12, 2020

Matthew inoculates people against the memory serum all throughout the day, Cara and Caleb and Tris and Nita and Reggie and himself.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

The government and Unicef launched an emergency vaccination campaign in April in certain regions, and have so far inoculated more than 18.4m children.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Arrieta said she was "inoculated" to the obstacles she kept encountering as a businesswoman but was nonetheless considering closing shop.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

Hundreds of Boston residents were inoculated in a 1721 campaign by Mather and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

Even in difficult conditions, the plants treated with fungi survived longer than those that were not inoculated.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026

Has Ridge Sabio been inoculated against disease and infection common in this time period?

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

They could even open the door to the possibility that people could help the plants migrate by inoculating certain areas with specific types of mycorrhizal fungi, Egan said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

Rabbi David Baron of Temple of the Arts wishes to create a global curriculum on “altruistic behavior”—his way of inoculating the young against extremism—in honor of the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025

Another collaborator, Deb Cabin, who studies prion disease at the McLaughlin Research Institute, flew out from Great Falls, Montana, to instruct them on inoculating the mice with infectious prion.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 21, 2024

I knew, as many historians knew before me, that free and enslaved West Africans on both sides of the Atlantic were inoculating against disease before the early 18th century.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2023

They were merely inoculating a community against an outbreak.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy


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