How to Use inoculation in a Sentence

inoculation

noun
  • Bauer said the newness of the vaccine may be one of the reasons the inoculation rate among younger children lags behind teens and adults.
    Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • In many countries that have had vaccines in hand for the better part of a year, inoculation rates still aren’t close to 100 percent.
    Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2021
  • That’s where the stress inoculation of our training comes in, to get you into the mindset to understand that this is not sports.
    Ian Douglass, Men's Health, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Millions of infants in Africa and Asia receive the inoculation each year.
    Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Vaccinations first looked to be a panacea, but the world was unable to achieve high enough rates of inoculation broadly enough across the globe to stop the pandemic.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Israel health officials launched inoculation campaigns in 2013, with the help of the WHO, in an effort to halt any potential spread of the virus.
    Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The two scientists’ work became the basis for a new type of inoculation.
    Naomi Kresge, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • That means the testing and inoculation requirements in the ports of call that your cruise will visit remain in effect.
    Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The best inoculation from these temptations of the deep — which take many a varied form — is to recruit only the most trustworthy of crew and give wide berth to the merfolk.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • If approved, Pfizer’s inoculation will be the first against RSV and the first new product related to the infection in over two decades.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Wharf refused to ask customers for proof of inoculation, the city shut down its indoor dining.
    New York Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • In New York City, there is a massive difference in the inoculation rates among agencies that have required their workers to get their shot and those that have not.
    Tommy Beer, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • From the pulpit in 1882, Archdeacon Thomas Colley denounced the evils of inoculation.
    Marion Renault, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
  • One of the fitness requirements is inoculation against a host of diseases.
    Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Dec. 2021
  • And because most countries have built their inoculation programs around these vaccines, the gap could have a profound impact on the course of the pandemic.
    Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Yet the inoculation campaign faces challenges, including fatigue from many in the U.S. who are tired of getting shots.
    Jared S. Hopkins, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Pfizer’s inoculation uses three shots each with a tiny 3 μg (micrograms) dose, which is a tenth of the size of the doses administered to adults.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 13 June 2022
  • Researchers have struggled since the 1960s to develop a safe and effective inoculation against the virus.
    Joseph Walker, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The vaccine was added to the U.S. routine early childhood inoculation schedule in 2006.
    Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2021
  • If Pfizer’s trial succeeds, the vaccine could be the first human inoculation available for Lyme disease in the U.S. in two decades.
    Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 8 Aug. 2022
  • With one of the lowest inoculation rates in Western Europe, Austria was the first country in the region to announce plans to make Covid shots compulsory.
    Time, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Pfizer expects data on how well its inoculation holds up within two to three weeks.
    James Paton, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Then on some level there’s a belief that having the perfect wedding is an inoculation against divorce.
    Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 25 May 2022
  • The effort is being paired with shots the school system is offering those who have not been vaccinated or are getting a second round of the inoculation.
    Leon Stafford, ajc, 22 Oct. 2021
  • About 80% of the Japanese population, for instance, have received two shots, and about 1% the third inoculation.
    Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 18 Jan. 2022
  • In Europe, the likes of Italy, Germany and France have tried to walk the middle path, relying on a mix of vaccine passes, masks and testing regimes to underpin their inoculation drives and avoid more lockdowns.
    BostonGlobe.com, 23 Oct. 2021
  • Thanks to a global inoculation campaign, infections had, for years, been going down, down, down.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Parents would be able to opt their children out of inoculation based on personal beliefs.
    Paloma Esquivel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2022
  • For the most part, service branches have higher inoculation rates than civilians.
    Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Oct. 2021
  • These side effects tend to be mild and short-lasting, usually resolving in the first 24 hours after inoculation.
    Katia Hetter, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022

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