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stigma

[stig-muh] / ˈstɪg mə /


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"In our community there was quite a lot of stigma around second-hand clothing at that point."

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

By making mental health conditions easier to understand through measurable physical information, the company hopes to reduce stigma and help patients better understand their experiences.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

While admitting you needed friends used to carry a heavy social stigma, people have become more honest about their loneliness, Krems said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

But men are just as susceptible and due to stigma and lack of obvious warning signs, it can go undetected for longer and means many, like Smith, suffer in silence.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Most return to impoverished neighborhoods in the Chicago area, bringing few resources and bearing the stigma of their prison record.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Fenton warned the policy could bring stigmas about using the toilet in school to "a whole new level".

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Limiting your travels due to potential racial stigmas is doing yourself a disservice.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

It’s also a testament to bygone stigmas and ascendant trends in American dining.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

In her writing, she openly discusses and encourages topics about womanhood and aging despite the stigmas around women's health, and emphasizes moments in her life where she held men accountable.

From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2025

To subject people who test positive to stigmas, especially when most of them may be false positives, is counterproductive and wrong.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

St. Francis, unmistakable from his tonsure, his chestnut robe and his stigmata, looks lovingly at the Christ Child.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

A student recently asked me about St. Francis of Assisi and the stigmata.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025

At least get some kind of stigmata going.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024

“But right now he’s ambulatory enough to where he doesn’t have all the stigmata of being critically ill in an intensive care unit, and all of the things that come with that.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2023

Many of these stigmata appear to be infected.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French


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