as in suffusing
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 inoculating
Louvered windows are opened to allow outside air in, cooling the wort and inoculating it with microbes that will magically start fermentation.
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Don Tse, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Similarly, white Americans are nearly four times as likely to skip or delay vaccinating their children compared to Asian Americans, with 19 percent and 5 percent, respectively, forgoing or putting off inoculating their kids, according to the poll.
—Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill, 15 Sep. 2025
Don Tse, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
Similarly, white Americans are nearly four times as likely to skip or delay vaccinating their children compared to Asian Americans, with 19 percent and 5 percent, respectively, forgoing or putting off inoculating their kids, according to the poll.
—Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inoculating
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Your energetic 5th house hosts the meeting of Mercury and Pluto, suffusing your hobbies with cosmic delight.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
22 Jan. 2026
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Rafiq suspected that the anxiety suffusing the market had made any pickpockets unlikely to be scoping out potential shoppers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
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Schulz built this indoor skating rink in 1969, infusing the design with Bavarian charm.—
Cu Fleshman,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Feb. 2026
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Bad Bunny also stands within a much longer Puerto Rican tradition of infusing both joy and protest into music, a tradition in which celebration itself becomes an act of resistance.—
Dr. Carlos A Torre,
Hartford Courant,
7 Feb. 2026
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Someone investing for the long term may want to buy a smaller amount of gold and hope for a greater return over many years.—
Nick Perry,
USA Today,
9 Feb. 2026
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For its part, Ford is investing $5 billion into its new EV platform.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Inoculating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inoculating. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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