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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

They inoculate about 2,000 koalas a year through wildlife hospital trials and tack themselves onto development projects or research studies in the region that involve their capture.

From BBC Dec. 29, 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

“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

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

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

From Science Daily Mar. 12, 2026

Can parents still have their children inoculated at birth?

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 5, 2025

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

The other, inoculated with the same mixture of strains, was left at room temperature.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

“You can’t remember, Polly, when we first started inoculating for smallpox.”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham




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