as in protection
freedom from punishment, harm, or loss
the suspect refused to name his partners unless he was granted immunity
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Recent Examples of immunity
By May, Hilleman and his colleagues knew that Americans lacked immunity against this new version of the virus.
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Alexandra M. Lord, CNN, 9 Feb. 2025
What is bird flu? Bird flu is a variation of the influenza virus that humans alive today have not been exposed to before and therefore have not built up immunity against.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
First, people don’t have long-lasting immunity to norovirus.
—Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
Trump helped shape a Supreme Court that granted all presidents presumed immunity for official acts in office.
—Axios, 2 Feb. 2025
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Alexandra M. Lord, CNN, 9 Feb. 2025
What is bird flu? Bird flu is a variation of the influenza virus that humans alive today have not been exposed to before and therefore have not built up immunity against.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
First, people don’t have long-lasting immunity to norovirus.
—Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
Trump helped shape a Supreme Court that granted all presidents presumed immunity for official acts in office.
—Axios, 2 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for immunity
Noun
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Thousands of probationary employees have already been dismissed, and the administration is now shifting its focus to career officials with civil service protections.—
Hannah Parry,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Whether the deletion was intentional, like a former employee deleting the data on 180 servers, or unintentional, like an accidental deletion causing a major outage for a social network, relying on redundancy as your only protection isn’t enough.—
Nick Martin,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The area has a low vaccination rate and some of the highest school vaccine exemption rates in the state, according to CBS News.—
Jaden Amos,
Axios,
28 Feb. 2025
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But traders continue to be engaged in a guessing game, including how big the tariffs will be and whether there could be exemptions for countries like Chile which would minimize the market impact, Ortonowski said.—
Jenni Reid,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2025
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Europe gains autonomy, America sheds defense burdens, and global trade explodes.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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Though Senate Republicans have pushed for two bills to address Mr. Trump's priorities, House Republicans are pursuing one major bill to address border security, defense and energy priorities, along with $4.5 trillion in tax cuts.—
Kaia Hubbard,
CBS News,
26 Feb. 2025
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The House package would raise the debt ceiling by $4 trillion over two years, put tens of billions of dollars into border security and defense − and add trillions to the federal deficit over 10 years.—
Riley Beggin,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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Today, all four nations, and many others in Europe, mutually view the war in Ukraine and the potential for further Russian operations as the most immediate threat to continental security.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
21 Feb. 2025
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No one—not the chiefs, not the officers, not the ordinary citizen—should feel empowered to behave with impunity.—
Marc J. Dunkelman,
TIME,
27 Feb. 2025
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For years, the Greek government had carried out pushbacks with frequency and near-total impunity.—
Lauren Markham,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Immunity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immunity. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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