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inoculation

[ih-nok-yuh-ley-shuhn] / ɪˌnɒk yəˈleɪ ʃən /
NOUN
immunization
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Still, inoculation was so controversial at the time that Boylston was threatened with hanging, and a homemade bomb was thrown through a window of Mather’s house but failed to explode.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Health experts say that the disease could be controlled or even eradicated with proper inoculation rates - generally defined as 95% of a community receiving the measles vaccine.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2025

They’re making a strange invisible inoculation for themselves of, ‘It’s not going to be me who suffers. It’s going to be someone else who deserves it.’

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2024

“All samples with a PCR positive result are going through egg inoculation tests, a gold-standard for determining if infectious virus is present,” they wrote.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2024

Without inoculation, she said, the smallpox epidemic could easily have handed the colonies back to the British.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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