immunize
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She scheduled a last-minute news conference with nursing staff from Kansas City Public Schools to plead with parents to immunize their children.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
There are ways to immunize yourself from those higher rates, either by using hedges or holding for a long enough period.
From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026
You can think of many areas where merely sitting abroad is not going to immunize you from the reach of American prosecution.
From Slate ● Jan. 7, 2026
After Epstein’s death, the men used their executor roles—controlling both victims’ compensation and access to records—to try to immunize themselves from personal lawsuits, according to court filings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
And I volunteer at the clinic, where a Guinean doctor comes once a week from Coquilhatville to immunize and diagnose babies.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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But her efforts to hold the prosecutor accountable have run into a roadblock at the state’s highest court, which says longstanding court doctrine immunizes prosecutors from civil liability.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
This means that even minor factual differences between the case at issue and prior cases effectively immunizes the officer from accountability.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2022
If Omicron safely immunizes people and similarly recombines with and tames more pathogenic SARS-CoV-2 variant, that would be “a best-case scenario,” she says.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 4, 2022
Although he is called an anti-vax doctor, Sears does not consider himself anti-vaccine, and pointed out that he routinely immunizes children in his office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2019
In some we observe that the carrier results from a low-level, incomplete infection with the disease which immunizes him but does not kill the bugs.
From Highways in Hiding by George Oliver Smith
Those who have been immunized, or have been previously infected, are probably protected against infection “but should still monitor for symptoms,” the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
“It’s a virus that mutates and against which people must be immunized over and over again.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Norway, by contrast, after the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s, set up a sovereign-wealth fund through a trust structure independent of central government and thus immunized against political manipulation.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
Those who are not immunized or are unsure of their status should monitor themselves closely for signs of infection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
Ultimately, I believe that the similarities between these systems of control overwhelm the differences and that mass incarceration, like its predecessors, has been largely immunized from legal challenge.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Public-health experts have warned against delaying the vaccine or only immunizing the babies of infected women at birth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
To prevent severe RSV in infants, officials recommend either maternal vaccination or immunizing the infant with a monoclonal antibody.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025
But immunizing cows would curb the risk to farm workers, and to other cows, and limit the opportunities for the virus to keep spreading and evolving, experts said.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
Another question is whether immunizing cows against H5N1 makes business sense for farmers.
From Science Magazine ● May 20, 2024
She is given a list of pediatricians, and coundess brochures on breast-feeding, and bonding, and immunizing, and samples of baby shampoos and Q-Tips and creams.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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