inoculate
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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
This underscores why technology like mRNA vaccine scaffolds, the technology used to inoculate against COVID, is so important.
From Salon ● May 20, 2026
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
He escaped before Dr. Moreau could inoculate him. intercede.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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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
But the study did not test how well the students could discern fake from real news, so it is hard to know how well the program inoculates students against falsehoods.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 25, 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
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His calculation leaves out women who were inoculated early and were still pregnant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
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
Even in difficult conditions, the plants treated with fungi survived longer than those that were not inoculated.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
“I’m immune to your charms. I’ve been inoculated by one not-girlfriend too many.”
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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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
They were merely inoculating a community against an outbreak.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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