inoculate
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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
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“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
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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
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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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