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inoculate

[ih-nok-yuh-layt] / 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

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

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 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

“And it’s a better model for having the option to select particular members of a population to opt out—you inoculate them, the virus spreads within twenty- four hours, and it has no effect on 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

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

The hospital’s steady employment normally inoculates the region against economic downturns and keeps unemployment lower here than in surrounding counties, said Fred Gaffney, president of the Columbia Montour Chamber of Commerce.

From Washington Post ● May 12, 2020

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 videos were part of a wave of misinformation that accompanied a child vaccination campaign this year that saw more than seven million Filipinos inoculated.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

To halt its spread, Gen. Washington—who survived smallpox when he was 19—had all his soldiers inoculated, which helped sustain the force for the rest of the Revolutionary War.

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

The first is that of the 28 percent who got inoculated, an equal number were from the high-fear and the low-fear group.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

Afterward, they returned to the long tables where each squadron sat beneath the squadron emblem, pouring drinks, laughing, the spirit of the evening inoculating them slowly.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy




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