inoculate

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If anything, Mr. Greene says, biofuels producers -- particularly those that specialize in making fuels that don't come from corn -- stand to benefit from new regulations, because such standards will "inoculate" the industry against the kinds of criticisms that have buffeted food-based biofuel crops.

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  1. transitive verb To introduce a serum, vaccine, or antigenic substance into (the body of a person or animal), especially to produce or boost immunity to a specific disease.
  2. transitive verb To communicate a disease to (a living organism) by transferring its causative agent into the organism.
  3. transitive verb To implant microorganisms or infectious material into (a culture medium).
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  • That is, that the delivery of specific cognitive tasks may help 'inoculate' against the escalation of flashbacks after a traumatic event. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • (SERE stands for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape and is the military program to "inoculate" certain military personnel against torture or abusive treatment by an enemy that doesn't recognize Geneva protocol.) —  - Front Page
  • "This suggests they would respond positively to an increased effort to inoculate," he said. —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • Rove knows that they will overreach again and it will only inoculate the Palin family and campaign on such issues. —  instapinch.com
  • "They are trying to inoculate the media and others, and essentially take the issue out of the campaign," Pilon said, adding that the NDP is taking a similar approach to crime, where the Liberals also tend to be stronger. —  Top Stories - Google News
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  1. Middle English inoculaten, to graft a scion, from Latin inoculāre, inoculāt- : in-, in; see in-2 + oculus, eye, bud; see okw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English inoculate, from Latin inoculatus, past participle of inoculare, ingraft an eye or bud of one plant into (another), implant, from in, in, + oculus, an eye: see ocular. Cf. inocule and ineye.
 

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/ɪnˈɑkjuleɪt/
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