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The FluMist is specifically made up of what's called a live but a tenuated virus, whereas the flu shot is an inactivated virus.
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It was hard to realise that up and down had returned once more, harder still to connect their reappearance with that distant, at - tenuated thunder that had broken in upon the silence of the ship.
The Sands of Mars Clarke, Arthur C. 1951
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\227She ex) -10.7 (tenuated Miss Moreton\222s condu) -10.7 (ct as much as she)] TJ
The Corinna of England, and a Heroine in the Shade: a Modern Romance Anonymous 1809
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