inoculated

past tense of inoculate

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Recent Examples of inoculated Each year, about 100,000 people in the United States are inoculated with the rabies vaccine after being exposed to the disease, the CDC said. Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 3 Aug. 2026 Watching that process has inoculated me against my misanthropy. Literary Hub, 21 July 2026 It has been inoculated by a parasitic braconid wasp that laid its eggs underneath the skin of the hornworm. Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 19 June 2026 Inoculation involved taking pus from a pock of someone with a not-very-severe case of smallpox, making a cut in the arm of the person to be inoculated, and rubbing the pus into the cut. ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026 In 1796, English physician Edward Jenner successfully inoculated 8-year-old James Phipps against smallpox by using cowpox matter. Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026 Because of her travels, the new tourist is inoculated against anyone who might try to convince her to hate or look down on people who look different from her, who speak a language other than her own, who pray to a different god, or who happen to live on the other side of a border. CBS News, 1 May 2026 Soil that was hauled in was inoculated with the same microbes and mycorrhizal fungi that thrive in the nearby hills. Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026 During the Revolutionary War, George Washington ordered troops to be inoculated against smallpox, which had ravaged the Continental Army and was scaring away recruits. Patricia Callahan, ProPublica, 19 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inoculated
Verb
  • The threat is still there, suffused into the air like a memory, but for a time the choice between love and survival no longer feels mutually exclusive to Nino and Yasmina.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 22 July 2026
  • Good binoculars will reveal a score of stars in this little group, while long-exposure observatory photographs show about 1000 in the area — all suffused in great clouds and streamers of nebulous light.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 July 2026
Verb
  • First-year coach Tosh Lupoi has overhauled the staff, the roster has been infused by more than 30 transfers and the expectations are rising for a program that has won more than seven games just once in the past 10 seasons.
    CBS News, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The gin is produced using the traditional discontinuous, indirect steam distillation method on a base of Italian grain alcohol, allowing each botanical to be infused gradually and with precision.
    Jillian Dara, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The duo also tapped Bamford Watch Department to help bring the new timepiece imbued in racing heritage to life.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 30 July 2026
  • That all culminated in a press conference at the FFF headquarters in Paris on Tuesday to announce Zidane’s appointment on a four-year contract, although this was imbued with far more drama than a standard managerial unveiling.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 28 July 2026

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“Inoculated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inoculated. Accessed 6 Aug. 2026.

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