Doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the inoculating.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

They have never succeeded in inoculating it on one man from another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 21] Reference

(This can work for non-vocal music as well: find a pre-existing literary title or quotation that has a vague connection to your piece, and it has a certain inoculating effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference

It's what they call inoculating the jury, right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2005] Reference

Some countries have suffered periodic social unrest, almost "inoculating" residents in preparing for the next disaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thousand Oaks Acorn] Reference

Most impressively, it then applies that patch to all of the other instances of the software running on different machines, "inoculating" them against intrusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Livescience.com] Reference

"inoculating" the global financial system, at least to some extent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News] Reference

KING: Tommy, do you see the day of inoculating everyone?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2001] Reference

But he's also inoculating himself against his father's problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2001] Reference

TOOBIN: Because basically he's inoculating himself for bad press.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 2, 2007] Reference

In a sense he is inoculating himself to that potential criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2006] Reference

In that respect, inoculating compost is very different than beer, wine, or bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

Scientific farmers have learned the value of inoculating their soil with these germs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference

Isn't he, in many ways, inoculating himself against Democratic charges on the economy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2003] Reference

Most tropical soils evidently contain rhizobia suitable for inoculating the winged bean.    From Wordnik.com.  [2 Agronomy] Reference

ROWLAND: To address the vaccine shortage, scientists are diluting it and inoculating volunteers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2001] Reference

So, scientists diluted it to as little as one-tenth of its normal strength and began inoculating.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2002] Reference

Flu-vaccine production is still in the horse-and-buggy stage of inoculating chicken eggs by hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fight Against the Flu] Reference

You're re-inoculating those same germs from the raw meat back onto the meat you're going to serve.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2007] Reference

They harvest honey from a beehive and cultivate shiitake mushrooms by inoculating logs with fungi.    From Wordnik.com.  [B] Reference

States allow certain exemptions, but by and large, educating your kids means inoculating them, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Necessary Shots?] Reference

The disease may be transmitted by inoculating blood containing the parasite into a susceptible animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

In 1976, Gerald Ford talked about the swine flu, and inoculating, getting vaccines for all these people.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2005] Reference

SELBY: I discovered this in a Pinot Noir vineyard, and we've been inoculating all of the tanks with this.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Hard Work and Passion Turn California Man Into Elite Winemaker - January 23, 2000] Reference

Another important method consists in inoculating an animal with some fluid containing the various bacteria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

The immunizing of the cattle by inoculating them when they were young with infected blood has been practised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference

That these men were susceptible was shown later by inoculating some of them, when they developed the disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference

These instruments are used for inoculating culture tubes and preparing specimens for microscopical examination.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

Gauging a vaccine's effectiveness requires inoculating thousands of healthy volunteers and tracking them for years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can He Find A Cure?] Reference

RIDGE: First of all, answering the second part of the question, we can't start inoculating until we have the vaccine.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2001] Reference

But when you take a step back, Wolf, what both of these campaigns are doing is inoculating themselves on the race issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2008] Reference

February the 13th, 1797, I availed myself of an opportunity of inoculating William Rodway, the servant man above alluded to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

Several bacteriologists have in the last few years been trying to discover a harmless method of inoculating against this disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Germ Life] Reference

How grateful would the would-be world-ruling Kaiser feel to Mr. Shaw were he to succeed in inoculating the peoples of Europe and of.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference

Folks were about ready to tear his house down; but he kept on inoculating, his patients didn't die, and finally people let up on him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference

Finally it again becomes clear, a sediment forms at the bottom, and on re-inoculating it with yeast culture no fermentation takes place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disease and Its Causes] Reference

BORGER: I think this is really more about inoculating himself against charges that he might be a warmonger, that he's too trigger happy, that he's a hawk.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2008] Reference

BORGER: That was really, really smart, because he knows -- he was inoculating himself, essentially -- he knows that Romney is going to take a punch at him.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 3, 2008] Reference