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
This underscores why technology like mRNA vaccine scaffolds, the technology used to inoculate against COVID, is so important.
From Salon ● May 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
“And you can inoculate your family too, Christina. I should be the one who tells Zeke and Hana, anyway.”
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
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The familiarity inoculates them against the fear, which may then become fascination.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2022
The spike protein triggers an immune response in the human body that inoculates against infection.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 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
“Injecting places like the Wing Luke into society inoculates against bigotry and racism and hatred,” he says.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2021
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 videos were part of a wave of misinformation that accompanied a child vaccination campaign this year that saw more than seven million Filipinos inoculated.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Growers are gathering on Sept. 30 to preorder the trees, with inoculated scions being propagated at Philip Rucks’s nursery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
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
Even in difficult conditions, the plants treated with fungi survived longer than those that were not inoculated.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
She didn’t buy into fearmongering and at the same time seemed equally inoculated against any sort of pie-in-the-sky idealism.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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Is he trying to scare parents into not inoculating children?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
“It’s almost a way of inoculating himself when he is surrounding himself with loyalists who have gone through similar travails.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2024
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
They were merely inoculating a community against an outbreak.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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