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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

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

From Slate ● May 26, 2026

Per the researchers’ formula, therefore, holding this ETF for between 10 and 11 years should immunize it from interest rate hikes.

From MarketWatch ● May 22, 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

Being black did not immunize us from history’s logic or the lure of the Dream.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 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

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

The Mexican government’s case argues that the 2005 measure immunizes the gun industry only from lawsuits involving violence in the United States.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2021

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

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

Infants were also able to get immunized starting that year through monoclonal antibodies, which aren’t technically vaccines but function similarly in this case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025

It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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

Another question is whether immunizing cows against H5N1 makes business sense for farmers.

From Science Magazine ● May 20, 2024

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

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 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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