as in suffusing
to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle
inoculated them with the idea that the individual can always make a difference in this world
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Recent Examples of inoculating
Similarly, white Americans are nearly four times as likely to skip or delay vaccinating their children compared to Asian Americans, with 19 percent and 5 percent, respectively, forgoing or putting off inoculating their kids, according to the poll.
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Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill, 15 Sep. 2025
Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inoculating
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Your energetic 5th house hosts the meeting of Mercury and Pluto, suffusing your hobbies with cosmic delight.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Jan. 2026
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Rafiq suspected that the anxiety suffusing the market had made any pickpockets unlikely to be scoping out potential shoppers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
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Canopy said this blended finance model is designed to help correct that imbalance by infusing capital into India’s rapidly growing next-gen materials industry.—
Jennifer Bringle,
Sourcing Journal,
21 Jan. 2026
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Means is a Stanford Medicine graduate who dropped out of her surgical residency and has since made a career infusing spiritual beliefs into her wellness company, social-media accounts, and best-selling book.—
Rina Raphael,
The Atlantic,
20 Jan. 2026
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The company racing to build artificial general intelligence is investing heavily in the most fundamentally human asset - its brand.—
Steven Wolfe Pereira,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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In recent years, industry leaders have been investing directly in maritime transport to secure export capacity.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Inoculating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inoculating. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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