inoculators
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pluralof inoculator.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
inoculatornouna person, such as a lab technician or healthcare worker, who inoculates people or animals.
Example Sentences
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The surviving descriptions are often vague and tell us little about the inoculators or inoculation recipients beyond whether the procedure was successful and the ideal time to perform it, when children were young.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2023
There are numerous accounts of North African, Arabian, and East Asian inoculators as well.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2023
Peter Levine, associate dean for research at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts, says that communities that bond to promote pro-social behavior can be powerful inoculators for young people.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2017
Though 400 inoculators have been at work since November, they reached only 300,000 out of 4,000,000 people in five months.
From Time Magazine Archive
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His experiments show nothing new; they merely furnish a recent confirmation of the well-known fact, familiar to the old inoculators, that inoculated small-pox is sometimes exceedingly mild in a series of cases.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various