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They could even open the door to the possibility that people could help the plants migrate by inoculating certain areas with specific types of mycorrhizal fungi, Egan said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Rabbi David Baron of Temple of the Arts wishes to create a global curriculum on “altruistic behavior”—his way of inoculating the young against extremism—in honor of the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

Another collaborator, Deb Cabin, who studies prion disease at the McLaughlin Research Institute, flew out from Great Falls, Montana, to instruct them on inoculating the mice with infectious prion.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 21, 2024

I knew, as many historians knew before me, that free and enslaved West Africans on both sides of the Atlantic were inoculating against disease before the early 18th century.

From Slate • Sep. 4, 2023

They were merely inoculating a community against an outbreak.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy