inoculate

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One crucial way to help inoculate boys against this content, West said, is to ask them questions about the creators’ underlying agendas: “How is this tactic being used to push engagement or push a product?”

From Salon • Nov. 21, 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

Knowing that Cohen is their most problematic witness, prosecutors spent not just Monday and Tuesday, but most of the trial, trying to inoculate him against the defense’s attacks by leaning into his scumbag reputation.

From Slate • May 14, 2024

Farmers can combat the mealybugs by giving vaccines to the trees to inoculate them from the virus.

From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2024

While forty thousand people have been vaccinated since the epidemic began, the ultimate goal is to inoculate a hundred thousand Haitians.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French