stigma
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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
To prevent nightmare scenarios, regulators and advocates say the key is to first reduce the stigma around mental health and reduce the threat of pilots’ losing their income or license if they seek help.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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
He wanted to learn the true meaning of blackness and thereby conquer the stigma; anthropology intrigued him as the study of where humankind began.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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
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
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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