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inoculate

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

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

Anyone lampooned with a scintilla of brutality knows that an appearance can temporarily inoculate against accusations of humorlessness.

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2026

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

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

His calculation leaves out women who were inoculated early and were still pregnant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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

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

“We don’t have time for this. We have to make sure Zeke and his mother and Christina’s family are all inoculated before the memory serum is released, or they’ll be useless.”

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

Rabbi David Baron of Temple of the Arts wishes to create a global curriculum on “altruistic behavior”—his way of inoculating the young against extremism—in honor of the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025

“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

“You can’t remember, Polly, when we first started inoculating for smallpox.”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham


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