inoculated

past tense of inoculate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of inoculated About 100,000 people in the United States are inoculated with the rabies vaccine each year after being exposed, the CDC said. — The Sacramento Bee Staff, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026 The raccoon bites into it and becomes inoculated within their oral cavity. — Ashley Paul, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026 When we are inoculated against a disease, we are exposed to a small, harmless dose of something dangerous. — Rebecca Stafford, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inoculated
Verb
  • Photograph by David Billet For years now, pop music has been suffused with a vague, or coded, malaise.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026
  • This is a book suffused with beauty, but climate emergency is its undercurrent.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The result is a piece of writing that is by turns reflective, researched, confessional and infused with righteous anger.
    — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
  • According to Vogue, the ceremony was infused with nods to the couple’s heritage and kicked off with a Paebaek ceremony, a centuries-old Korean tradition that originally served as a welcome for the bride into the groom’s family.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • With Hydra, Foster imbued his urban vision into ancient craft, highlighting the design innovation and the expertise of Murano’s master glassmakers.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The spirituality throughout is imbued with a solemn reverence more Catholic than Baptist.
    — Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 13 Oct. 2026

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“Inoculated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inoculated. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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