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inoculate

[ih-nok-yuh-leyt] / 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

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

From Salon May 20, 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

He escaped before Dr. Moreau could inoculate him. intercede.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

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

From Washington Post Aug. 26, 2022

“More education does two things — it inoculates you to some extent against employer scare tactics,” Ms. Milkman said.

From New York Times Apr. 28, 2022

But the study did not test how well the students could discern fake from real news, so it is hard to know how well the program inoculates students against falsehoods.

From Scientific American Jan. 25, 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

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

Travelling with animals abroad is even more difficult because they need paperwork, for instance showing that they have been inoculated against rabies.

From BBC Apr. 25, 2026

To demonstrate the efficacy and safety of the procedure, Boylston inoculated himself, his 6-year-old son and Mather’s younger children.

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

Dill thought—incorrectly, as it turned out—that his exchange with his mother that morning had somehow inoculated him against more pain.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

Is he trying to scare parents into not inoculating children?

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

“It’s almost a way of inoculating himself when he is surrounding himself with loyalists who have gone through similar travails.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 8, 2024

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

I never dreamed that they were going to try to make it appear that instead of inoculating against an epidemic, I had started it.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey




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