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anti-vaccine

anti-vaccine

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Against using vaccines to prevent disease
  • adjective
  • /ˌæn.tiˈvæk.siːn/
translation icon : antivacunas
  • The anti-vaccine movement often spreads misinformation about the safety of vaccines.
  • the anti-vaccine movement

Examples

  • So the Epoch Times, for example, is a far right publication by most metrics that has promoted like anti vaccine, the big lie.

  • We have a president who is at best very skeptical and indifferent to science in general and has expressed anti vaccine sentiments from time to time.

  • We're not anti-vaccine, but we do want to understand every medicine we give our child, and we were grateful that our doctor was well-informed.

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  • And I don't see any time in the very near future when this growing anti science and anti vaccine agenda is going to disappear.

  • I'm not sorry that he did, but it would have been nice to have some type of discussion about it because I had come from a very anti-vaccine background, and while I didn't embrace that way of life myself, I still had concerns or questions about vaccines.

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  • I was aware of some of the anti-vaccine arguments and left shaking my head in disbelief at some of the arguments and fearmongering that was presented.

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  • But most importantly, Biden can't be anti vaccine and he can't be anti lockdown because that's his, I mean, it just doesn't make a lot of sense.

  • If those players are anti-vaccine, then it's kind of like trying to get Fox News to retract something—the inaccuracies have currency that the later corrections don't.

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  • Many parents in the anti-vaccine community are concerned about potential side effects.

  • The anti-vaccine stance has led to increased outbreaks of preventable diseases in some areas.

Synonyms

anti-vaccination
vsanti-vaccine
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Against using vaccines

includes opposing research and development of those medical shots

Surface Forms

anti-vaccine positive

Morphology

anti-vaccine = anti-vaccine (transparent) = anti + vaccine

The noun is a straightforward conversion from the adjective anti-vaccine, referring to a person characterized by that stance.

Etymology

Anti-vaccine is made of anti- meaning 'against' and vaccine, a word that comes from the Latin vacca meaning 'cow' because the first vaccine used cowpox. So anti-vaccine describes being 'against' vaccines.