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inoculate

[ih-nok-yuh-layt] / ɪˈnɒk jəˌleɪt /
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immunize
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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

During Strategy’s first-quarter earnings call in May, Saylor said the company would “probably sell some bitcoin to fund a dividend just to inoculate the market, just to send the message that we did it.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026

They hope that antibodies in the milk can inoculate them against the virus.

From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2024

Haffkine developed a vaccine to combat the plague and Saklatvala went door-to-door, convincing people to inoculate themselves.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2024

Did we repeat the experiment, we should instead inoculate in the leg, which, being further removed from the pneumatic, electrico-aetherial, and hydraulico- vascular machinery, is less likely to lead to internal corrosion and fatality, viz.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

“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 spike protein triggers an immune response in the human body that inoculates against infection.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022

But the study did not test how well the students could discern fake from real news, so it is hard to know how well the program inoculates students against falsehoods.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 25, 2022

A health worker inoculates a woman with her first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Saint Damien Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti July 19, 2021.

From Reuters ● Jul. 21, 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

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

To halt its spread, Gen. Washington—who survived smallpox when he was 19—had all his soldiers inoculated, which helped sustain the force for the rest of the Revolutionary War.

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

When he launched a crusade against an outbreak of malaria, Celia inoculated schoolchildren.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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

“Combating COVID-19 requires a comprehensive national ability, including the capacity for testing, treatment and inoculating people with vaccines,” Jung said.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2022

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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