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inoculate

[ih-nok-yuh-leyt] / ɪˈnɒk jəˌleɪt /
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immunize
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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

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

They inoculate against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, specifically the KP.2 strain, which has been driving a large proportion of infections this summer.

From Salon Aug. 22, 2024

He took him into business and tried to inoculate him with the joys of buying and selling, of outwitting other men, of judging them for a bluff, of living by maneuver.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

“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 spike protein triggers an immune response in the human body that inoculates against infection.

From Washington Post Aug. 26, 2022

“More education does two things — it inoculates you to some extent against employer scare tactics,” Ms. Milkman said.

From New York Times Apr. 28, 2022

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

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

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

The problem with this line is that unvaccinated children can sicken infants and immuno-compromised children who can’t be inoculated, leaving some disabled or worse.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 22, 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

“We don’t have time for this. We have to make sure Zeke and his mother and Christina’s family are all inoculated before the memory serum is released, or they’ll be useless.”

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

Is he trying to scare parents into not inoculating children?

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

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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