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  • verb Present participle of inoculate.

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  • noun the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity

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Examples

  • They have never succeeded in inoculating it on one man from another.

    CHAPTER XXI 2010

  • Previously, some research workers had succeeded in inoculating healthy individuals with typhus by injecting blood from a patient, but all attempts to inoculate animals had failed up till then.

    Physiology or Medicine 1928 - Presentation Speech 1965

  • After several unsuccessful attempts, Nicolle succeeded at the beginning of 1909 in inoculating chimpanzees with typhus and, from the chimpanzee, he was able to inoculate monkeys of a lower order by injection of blood.

    Physiology or Medicine 1928 - Presentation Speech 1965

  • They have never succeeded in inoculating it on one man from another.

    Chapter 21 1917

  • (This can work for non-vocal music as well: find a pre-existing literary title or quotation that has a vague connection to your piece, and it has a certain inoculating effect.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • (This can work for non-vocal music as well: find a pre-existing literary title or quotation that has a vague connection to your piece, and it has a certain inoculating effect.

    The song that goes like this Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • They also think they've done a pretty good job, in the Kerry campaign, of kind of inoculating him against, Oh, national Democrats are against guns, they're going to take away your guns.

    CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2004 2004

  • Most impressively, it then applies that patch to all of the other instances of the software running on different machines, "inoculating" them against intrusion.

    Livescience.com 2009

  • Most impressively, it then applies that patch to all of the other instances of the software running on different machines, "inoculating" them against intrusion.

    Livescience.com 2009

  • Some countries have suffered periodic social unrest, almost "inoculating" residents in preparing for the next disaster.

    Thousand Oaks Acorn 2008

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