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immunize

[im-yuh-nahyz, ih-myoo-nahyz] / ˈɪm jəˌnaɪz, ɪˈmju naɪz /
VERB
perform vaccination
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Sleeping better — or getting hearing aids or cataract surgery — won’t immunize you from all types of fraud.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

She scheduled a last-minute news conference with nursing staff from Kansas City Public Schools to plead with parents to immunize their children.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

It suggests that no other irreversible power to immunize lurks in the Constitution’s silences.

From Slate ● May 26, 2026

After Epstein’s death, the men used their executor roles—controlling both victims’ compensation and access to records—to try to immunize themselves from personal lawsuits, according to court filings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025

“The embryos still have gills. We immunize the fish against the future man’s diseases.”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

But her efforts to hold the prosecutor accountable have run into a roadblock at the state’s highest court, which says longstanding court doctrine immunizes prosecutors from civil liability.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2023

This means that even minor factual differences between the case at issue and prior cases effectively immunizes the officer from accountability.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2022

If Omicron safely immunizes people and similarly recombines with and tames more pathogenic SARS-CoV-2 variant, that would be “a best-case scenario,” she says.

From Science Magazine ● Feb. 4, 2022

Although he is called an anti-vax doctor, Sears does not consider himself anti-vaccine, and pointed out that he routinely immunizes children in his office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2019

In some we observe that the carrier results from a low-level, incomplete infection with the disease which immunizes him but does not kill the bugs.

From Highways in Hiding by George Oliver Smith

To achieve herd immunity, a level of vaccination that protects those who can’t get shots, a community needs around 95% of people to be immunized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Norway, by contrast, after the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s, set up a sovereign-wealth fund through a trust structure independent of central government and thus immunized against political manipulation.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026

Those who are not immunized or are unsure of their status should monitor themselves closely for signs of infection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

Children age 1 year and older are considered fully immunized after receiving two doses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

Ultimately, I believe that the similarities between these systems of control overwhelm the differences and that mass incarceration, like its predecessors, has been largely immunized from legal challenge.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Public-health experts have warned against delaying the vaccine or only immunizing the babies of infected women at birth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

But immunizing cows would curb the risk to farm workers, and to other cows, and limit the opportunities for the virus to keep spreading and evolving, experts said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

The CDC also recommends the Abrysvo vaccine for pregnant people and immunizing babies against RSV with an antibody known as nirsevimab, also known by the trademarked name Beyfortus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2023

The contracts specify that the vaccines can only be used for immunizing humans and violations in theory could create liability issues for the companies.

From Science Magazine ● May 30, 2023

She is given a list of pediatricians, and coundess brochures on breast-feeding, and bonding, and immunizing, and samples of baby shampoos and Q-Tips and creams.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri


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