inoculate
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This underscores why technology like mRNA vaccine scaffolds, the technology used to inoculate against COVID, is so important.
From Salon ● May 20, 2026
Saylor, Strategy’s founder and executive chairman, raised the possibility, telling investors, “We’ll probably sell some bitcoin to fund a dividend just to inoculate the market, just to send the message that we did it. ‘
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
Wilson believed that public anonymity would inoculate the organization against members’ exploitation of AA for personal or professional gain and keep it free from controversy and embarrassment.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 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
“You didn’t inoculate yourself yesterday,” I say to Peter.
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
A health worker inoculates a woman with her first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Saint Damien Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti July 19, 2021.
From Reuters ● Jul. 21, 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
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Arrieta said she was "inoculated" to the obstacles she kept encountering as a businesswoman but was nonetheless considering closing shop.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Hundreds of Boston residents were inoculated in a 1721 campaign by Mather and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston.
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
Children who have never been inoculated against COVID-19 should also get the vaccine, as should pregnant women and anyone else who wants to get the shot, the state says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2025
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
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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
It also illustrates just how effective he has become at inoculating himself against political fallout by setting expectations and controlling the narrative.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 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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