inoculate
verb (used with object)
to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
will inoculate
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future tenseof inoculate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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“My hope is that it will inoculate Xbox from repeating a similar mistake in the future.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
Averill will investigate that this fall through a company he’s created, Funga, that will inoculate pines being commercially planted in the southeastern United States.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 6, 2022
In China, a major global producer of vaccines, the government is backing several coronavirus vaccine projects, raising the prospect it will inoculate its 1.4 billion people first.
From Reuters ● Apr. 25, 2020
The only thing that will inoculate the public to the jarring novelty of women in positions of power is more women in positions of power.
From Slate ● Nov. 21, 2019
Should it then attack a healthy person there is danger that it will inoculate him with the disease.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
