inoculate
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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
Yoga instructor Judd likes to call attention to the area’s cowboy roots and remind participants that the site they’re on was once used to inoculate, disinfect and brand cattle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2025
They inoculate about 2,000 koalas a year through wildlife hospital trials and tack themselves onto development projects or research studies in the region that involve their capture.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2024
“So you need to inoculate them by what time?”
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
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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
The spike protein triggers an immune response in the human body that inoculates against infection.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022
“More education does two things — it inoculates you to some extent against employer scare tactics,” Ms. Milkman said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2022
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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Arrieta said she was "inoculated" to the obstacles she kept encountering as a businesswoman but was nonetheless considering closing shop.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Travelling with animals abroad is even more difficult because they need paperwork, for instance showing that they have been inoculated against rabies.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
Even in difficult conditions, the plants treated with fungi survived longer than those that were not inoculated.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
The problem with this line is that unvaccinated children can sicken infants and immuno-compromised children who can’t be inoculated, leaving some disabled or worse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Dill thought—incorrectly, as it turned out—that his exchange with his mother that morning had somehow inoculated him against more pain.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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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
That’s the principle of vaccination: to stimulate our antibody production without our having to go through the actual experience of the disease, by inoculating us with a dead or weakened strain of microbe.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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