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inoculate

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

Anyone lampooned with a scintilla of brutality knows that an appearance can temporarily inoculate against accusations of humorlessness.

From Salon Mar. 6, 2026

Haffkine developed a vaccine to combat the plague and Saklatvala went door-to-door, convincing people to inoculate themselves.

From BBC Oct. 19, 2024

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

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

From Washington Post Aug. 26, 2022

Is it comfort with risk or faith in nature and self that inoculates extreme and adventure athletes like Grosmaire to danger?

From New York Times May 9, 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

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

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

His calculation leaves out women who were inoculated early and were still pregnant.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 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

Travelling with animals abroad is even more difficult because they need paperwork, for instance showing that they have been inoculated against rabies.

From BBC Apr. 25, 2026

Even in difficult conditions, the plants treated with fungi survived longer than those that were not inoculated.

From Science Daily Mar. 12, 2026

To test this question, many years ago my colleagues and I prepared chambers that simulated the Martian environment as it was then known, inoculated them with terrestrial microorganisms and waited to see if anybody survived.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

They could even open the door to the possibility that people could help the plants migrate by inoculating certain areas with specific types of mycorrhizal fungi, Egan said.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

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

From the microbes’ point of view, however, they’re just a useful device to enlist a host’s help in inoculating microbes into a body cavity of a new host.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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