inoculate

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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’re upgraded preparations of vaccines that themselves underwent placebo-controlled trials, or formulations aimed at new variants of the targeted disease, or shots that inoculate against several diseases all at once.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025

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

Did we repeat the experiment, we should instead inoculate in the leg, which, being further removed from the pneumatic, electrico-aetherial, and hydraulico- vascular machinery, is less likely to lead to internal corrosion and fatality, viz.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson