stigma

The WHO has warned that stigma surrounding Ebola could discourage people from reporting symptoms or seeking medical care, potentially allowing the virus to spread undetected.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Soon, the #MeToo era would lessen the stigma of coming forward.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

There is also, in many countries outside the U.S., a social stigma attached to not seeking employment.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

It’s difficult to imagine that a single presented as playfully as this one will be taking a real hard look at its association with stigma and shame.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

David Braman’s ethnographic research shows that mass incarceration, far from reducing the stigma associated with criminality, actually creates a deep silence in communities of color, one rooted in shame.

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

These stigmas are not simply harmful — they are also unscientific.

From Salon ● Mar. 2, 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

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

The actor stars as the real-life priest who was known for exhibiting stigmata and was subsequently beatified and canonized by Pope John Paul II. Watch an exclusive trailer, via Variety.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2022

I was a bom-and-bred Catholic and thought immediately it was some sort of writing stigmata and that I should get to a church.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos