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stigma

[stig-muh] / ˈstɪg mə /


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It makes them feel old, a stigma that those in the senior-housing industry are trying to address.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 5, 2026

These included the date of the first flower, flower size, nectar sugar, flowering time, and the distance between flowers' anthers, or the pollen-producing part of the flower, and the stigma, the structure that receives pollen.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

School uniform swap shop 'saves money and tackles second hand clothes stigma'

From BBC Sep. 2, 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

Nowadays he’s got more than he ever had in his life, he has everything but breeding, he’s freed himself from every stigma, but he sits nursing his hangover of hatred....”

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

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

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

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

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

“I like her despite a few little annoying NY stigmata like the use of like as an expletive,” Gendel wrote.

From New York Times Nov. 6, 2022

“All the physiological stigmata of old age have been abolished. And along with them, of course . . .” “Don’t forget to ask him about that Malthusian belt,” said Fanny.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley




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