inoculate
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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
Saylor, Strategy’s founder and executive chairman, raised the possibility, telling investors, “We’ll probably sell some bitcoin to fund a dividend just to inoculate the market, just to send the message that we did it. ‘
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 2026
Wilson believed that public anonymity would inoculate the organization against members’ exploitation of AA for personal or professional gain and keep it free from controversy and embarrassment.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2025
The government was determined not to budge, perhaps hopeful much of it was noise and their mountainous majority would inoculate them from a minority of grumblers.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025
In retrospect, Fenn told me, “One of George Washington’s most brilliant moves was to inoculate the army against smallpox during the Valley Forge winter of ’78.”
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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“There’s mold spores and fungus spores, so that inoculates your pile full of that goodness,” she says.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
The familiarity inoculates them against the fear, which may then become fascination.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 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
The hospital’s steady employment normally inoculates the region against economic downturns and keeps unemployment lower here than in surrounding counties, said Fred Gaffney, president of the Columbia Montour Chamber of Commerce.
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2020
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
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The government and Unicef launched an emergency vaccination campaign in April in certain regions, and have so far inoculated more than 18.4m children.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Hundreds of Boston residents were inoculated in a 1721 campaign by Mather and Dr. Zabdiel Boylston.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
Even in difficult conditions, the plants treated with fungi survived longer than those that were not inoculated.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
A new recommendation passed by the committee will tell parents of most infants to consult with doctors about whether their babies should be inoculated at birth.
From Barron's ● Dec. 5, 2025
When he launched a crusade against an outbreak of malaria, Celia inoculated schoolchildren.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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Is he trying to scare parents into not inoculating children?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
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
Like I’m hearing that pre-bunking, inoculating people against disinformation might be really helpful, along with flooding the zone with facts.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
They were merely inoculating a community against an outbreak.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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