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9 total sentences available.
But you would not willingly thus give up the Cause; therefore endeavour to draw others into your Assistance, and venture to assert, that by the Account Dr. Nettleton gives, as also by the best Observation upon those who have been Inoculated in this City, scarcely a fourth part of them have had a true and genuine Small Pox.
Source: wiktionary
The sense that it takes outrageous fortune to get inoculated echoes here in the Bay Area, where pharmacies have canceled flu-shot clinics, doctors turn away pleading patients and health officials are reduced to telling panicked callers that they should practice good personal hygiene.
Source: wiktionary
The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.
Source: wiktionary
to inoculate the bud of one tree or plant into another
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 9 available sentences.
Closest matches include immunize, vaccinate, acclimatize, admit, animate.
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