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

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

The government was determined not to budge, perhaps hopeful much of it was noise and their mountainous majority would inoculate them from a minority of grumblers.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025

Yoga instructor Judd likes to call attention to the area’s cowboy roots and remind participants that the site they’re on was once used to inoculate, disinfect and brand cattle.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2025

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