stigma
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“The chatbot’s tendency to perpetuate health misinformation and associated stigma regarding self-managed medication abortions poses a threat to public health and reproductive autonomy,” the researchers wrote.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
That was something, especially when we started shooting, that we all talked about, because we were like, “We’ve never been in a place where it didn’t feel like there was a stigma against it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Listen as Melys shares her story to help reduce the stigma around the virus.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
"It's a lot of stigma when somebody is brought to a psychiatrist," she said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
Even when released from the system’s formal control, the stigma of criminality lingers.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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
She said in addition to the different physical symptoms, there can be cultural pressures and stigmas at play among some black and Asian communities, where the topic of women's health can be a taboo.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2025
And there’s a lot of cultural stigmas that she looks at when it comes to female and male gender roles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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
It's not whether or not he really received the stigmata.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025
At least get some kind of stigmata going.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024
Church figures who claimed to have experienced the stigmata wounds, including Padre Pio and Pope Francis’ namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, have inspired millions of Catholics.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
Many of these stigmata appear to be infected.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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