How to Use inoculation in a Sentence

inoculation

noun
  • Both are located in ZIP codes with some of the lowest rates of inoculation in the city.
    Lisa Donovan, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2021
  • 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
  • But the search for inoculation brings up a host of new dilemmas, because the stakes are higher.
    Emily Brindley, courant.com, 7 Mar. 2021
  • While the shot is approved in the EU, the inoculation campaign hasn’t started.
    Naomi Kresge, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Canada has one of the highest inoculation rates in the Group of 20 nations.
    Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • California has one of the highest vaccination rates in the nation, and the U.S. has one of the highest per capita rates of inoculation in the world.
    oregonlive, 25 June 2021
  • California has one of the highest vaccination rates in the nation, and the U.S. has one of the highest per-capita rates of inoculation in the world.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 June 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
  • So he was stuck in limbo for a while, weighing the benefits of inoculation against his concerns.
    Bethany Rodgers, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 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
  • Use of that inoculation was halted in early April over rare blood clot reports.
    Olivia Krauth, The Courier-Journal, 12 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • There are the ones who give their children routine vaccines but are hesitant about the Covid inoculation.
    Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 17 May 2021
  • Researchers have struggled since the 1960s to develop a safe and effective inoculation against the virus.
    Joseph Walker, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The government said Sunday that 16- and 17-year-olds will be offered the vaccine by next week, but there has been no announcement on the inoculation of younger children.
    Tara John, CNN, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The effort to stoke fear about Chinese inoculations risked undermining overall public trust in government health initiatives, including U.S.-made vaccines that became available later, Lucey and others said.
    Christopher Bing, Karen Lema and Joel Shectman, USA TODAY, 26 July 2024
  • The concept of inoculation developed with smallpox outbreaks several centuries ago.
    Bill Sullivan, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2024

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