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  • noun Plural form of inoculation.

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Examples

  • As a result of many thousands of tuberculin inoculations in two areas of the province of Hesse, I at first thought that the question of breed played an important part.

    Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • The panel discussed how works about future horrors worked better as "inoculations" to our own fear of them, rather than as actual predictions.

    Alex Palmer: Authors Ask: How Terrifying Will Our Future Be? 2010

  • The panel discussed how works about future horrors worked better as "inoculations" to our own fear of them, rather than as actual predictions.

    Alex Palmer: Authors Ask: How Terrifying Will Our Future Be? 2010

  • For example, things like what kind of inoculations do you have to get -- anthrax?

    CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2009 2009

  • We had heard before of German "inoculations," and some of us had nasty forebodings as to the results.

    Five Months on a German Raider Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf' Frederic George Trayes

  • Two weeks ago the government indicated that the initiative would not include support for contraception or abortion and that it would simply focus on saving lives through basic care such as inoculations, health services, and food and water, but Prime Minister Harper backed down on contraception following pressure from opposition parties.

    Latest Articles Life Site News 2010

  • The Conservatives had indicated last week that their initiative would focus on simple and beneficial solutions for women and children in the Third World, such as inoculations and food and water, but they later backed down under pressure and agreed to consider contraceptives in the plan, leading to fears that they would also back down on abortion.

    LifeSiteNews.com Headlines lsn@LifeSiteNews.com 2010

  • It needs now to be proven that these 'grisly theatricals' were not staged, were not the kind of 'inoculations' that act as 'deniable instruments of policy'.

    Kafila 2009

  • It was estimated that those smallpox inoculations would probably kill three hundred Americans.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • It was estimated that those smallpox inoculations would probably kill three hundred Americans.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

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