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- verb Present participle of
vaccinate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity
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Examples
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I did, certainly, succeed in vaccinating a number of people by injecting very small, repeated doses of virulent blood (with Conseil) and achieved rather better results with brain tissue from the guinea pig (with Hélène
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Even though young children are being the hardest hit by the swine flu, many parents are not sold on the idea of vaccinating their young children.
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MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, ACTOR: I mean, obviously, the idea of vaccinating is in an ideal world, upside down and backwards.
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Many parents are appalled at the notion of vaccinating such young girls against a sexually transmitted disease.
Archive 2007-02-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Many parents are appalled at the notion of vaccinating such young girls against a sexually transmitted disease.
"What kind of people supply schoolgirls to a pharmaceutical company...?" Ann Althouse 2007
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He says, well, we've endorsed the idea of vaccinating people in the time of smallpox epidemics.
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Whistling at our fear, assuming a brave stance, "vaccinating" ourselves with affirmations, seeking out the psychic police for protection, or even pole-vaulting headlong into fear like would-be Olympians are the common strategies many of us use to overcome terror.
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So we never took care of "vaccinating" it against viruses etc.
me-ander 2009
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* Protecting 111 million people through disease prevention activities, such as vaccinating children against measles
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* Protecting 111 million people through disease prevention activities, such as vaccinating children against measles
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