stigma
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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
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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
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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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