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immunize

[im-yuh-nahyz, ih-myoo-nahyz] / ˈɪm jəˌnaɪz, ɪˈmju naɪz /
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perform vaccination
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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

Unfortunately for the bulls, robust projected earnings growth doesn’t immunize the market from major declines.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 13, 2026

You can think of many areas where merely sitting abroad is not going to immunize you from the reach of American prosecution.

From Slate ● Jan. 7, 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

I knew what a photograph was, and I had been examined by a doctor once, an African doctor, but I didn’t know what the word immunize meant.

From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince

For a seller, “fully disclosing essentially immunizes you from liability later.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2023

He has argued that the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause, which shields members of Congress from reprisals for legislative conduct, immunizes him against testifying because the vice president serves as president of the Senate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

Tech companies argue they are protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which in general immunizes them from liability for content someone else has posted.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 17, 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

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

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

People who aren’t fully immunized should contact a healthcare provider if exposure happened less than a week ago, according to the release.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2026

The U.S. recommends youngsters to get immunized against 18 diseases, while Denmark recommends 10.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

If a pregnant woman wasn’t vaccinated against RSV, officials recommend her infant get immunized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025

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

Healing, renewing, and then immunizing American democracy against such forces will be a decades-long social and political project.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2023

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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