as in to suffuse
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 inoculate
The move follows the governor’s announcement earlier this month that California is pursuing strategic trade relationships of its own with international partners, with the goal of ensuring economic resilience and inoculating the state against the damage done by President Trump’s trade policies.
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Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 16 Apr. 2025
Those patterns were embossed into the surface of flat polystyrene chips, which were subsequently inoculated with Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other types of bacteria.
—New Atlas, 25 June 2025
Now proactively address those issues and inoculate yourself.
—Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
On the left, a healthy wheat head stands in contrast to the one on the right, which is inoculated with Fusarium graminearum and shows severe symptoms of Fusarium head blight disease.
—Alexander Tin
june 4, CBS News, 4 June 2025
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Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 16 Apr. 2025
Those patterns were embossed into the surface of flat polystyrene chips, which were subsequently inoculated with Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other types of bacteria.
—New Atlas, 25 June 2025
Now proactively address those issues and inoculate yourself.
—Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
On the left, a healthy wheat head stands in contrast to the one on the right, which is inoculated with Fusarium graminearum and shows severe symptoms of Fusarium head blight disease.
—Alexander Tin
june 4, CBS News, 4 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inoculate
Verb
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The notion that Social Security faces a shortfall suffuses the national conversation about retirement.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
24 July 2025
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The one person who actually went to prison for the 2021 shooting death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins is free just weeks after the tragedy suffused Alec Baldwin starring indie Western premiered and then promptly disappeared in a cloud of box office dust earlier this month.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
25 May 2025
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Once the sugar has been infused with strawberry, add 2.5 oz of water and mix to dissolve it.—
Jillian Dara,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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During a drug and alcohol infused blackout in 1989, Osbourne almost choked his wife Sharon Osbourne to death.—
Daniela Avila,
People.com,
22 July 2025
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Imbued with empathy, Canseco is poised to extend the ambassador mentality inculcated at the fair in her first-in-her-family journey to college.—
News Release,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 June 2025
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Abe was part of a conservative faction of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and known for his association with Nippon Kaigi, an influential conservative organization that among other goals advocated teaching Japanese history to inculcate national pride.—
Jennifer Lind,
Foreign Affairs,
12 July 2022
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These include not only making ends meet, but having enough breathing room to pay down debt, build emergency savings and invest for the future.—
Ryan Ermey,
CNBC,
19 July 2025
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Venture capital firms often develop ethical investing theses: some won’t invest in gambling, smoking, or other industries that promote harmful behavior.—
Cherie Brooke Luo,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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His Marx was imbued with a strange ironic nihilism.—
Leigh Claire La Berge,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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Each material, curve, and proportion is imbued with intention to reflect that spirit.—
Bill Springer,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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“Inoculate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inoculate. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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