stigma
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Organisers said they wanted to make affordable clothing accessible to everyone while challenging the stigma sometimes associated with buying second-hand.
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
If television could hit something approaching the same cinematic highs and emotional depths as a Hollywood movie, even if rarely, then the stigma of going episodic couldn’t last.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
Former South Africa bowler Shaun Pollock was part of the ICC committee which recommended the change and he believes there is a "stigma" around the pink ball in the game.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
And the long, aggressive, yellowy stigma jutting from the center is like a jaundiced old man's finger.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Dating with a pet — any pet — brings with it obstacles, but our cat stigmas aren’t helping.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Limiting your travels due to potential racial stigmas is doing yourself a disservice.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Trust The Signs, they discuss the storyline, the stigmas and symptoms.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
It’s also a testament to bygone stigmas and ascendant trends in American dining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
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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