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inoculate

[ih-nok-yuh-leyt] / ɪˈnɒk jəˌleɪt /
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immunize
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Saylor, Strategy’s founder and executive chairman, raised the possibility, telling investors, “We’ll probably sell some bitcoin to fund a dividend just to inoculate the market, just to send the message that we did it. ‘

From MarketWatch May 6, 2026

Anyone lampooned with a scintilla of brutality knows that an appearance can temporarily inoculate against accusations of humorlessness.

From Salon Mar. 6, 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

Knowing that Cohen is their most problematic witness, prosecutors spent not just Monday and Tuesday, but most of the trial, trying to inoculate him against the defense’s attacks by leaning into his scumbag reputation.

From Slate May 14, 2024

Amar gave us a little over an hour to find and inoculate Uriah’s family and get back to the compound unnoticed, so I only have time for one of them.

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

The spike protein triggers an immune response in the human body that inoculates against infection.

From Washington Post Aug. 26, 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

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

And many American doctors initially opposed the procedure as dangerous, medically unproven, and expensive because of physicians’ often-hefty fees and the cost of maintaining facilities for quarantining people temporarily after they were inoculated.

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

A new recommendation passed by the committee will tell parents of most infants to consult with doctors about whether their babies should be inoculated at birth.

From Barron's Dec. 5, 2025

Children who have never been inoculated against COVID-19 should also get the vaccine, as should pregnant women and anyone else who wants to get the shot, the state says.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 20, 2025

In contrast, mice inoculated with the rough strain mounted an immune response and survived.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

Like I’m hearing that pre-bunking, inoculating people against disinformation might be really helpful, along with flooding the zone with facts.

From Seattle Times Sep. 16, 2022

They were merely inoculating a community against an outbreak.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy




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