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Critics of involuntary civil-commitment programs argue they violate civil liberties and stigmatize mental illness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

Many feared the decision could further stigmatize the shot in a moment when many parents are refusing it simply because the recommendation is under review.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

The behaviors that Gerdes' bill seeks to stigmatize are — as any person who has ever met a child or been a child could tell you — entirely normal forms of play.

From Salon ● May 12, 2025

Virologists have also come to acknowledge that names can stigmatize people or places.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024

Upon being questioned, he explained that he meant to stigmatize these facts as "filthy."

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

The label stigmatizes Cambodia and its citizens, while these criminal networks are transnational and largely foreign-led.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

I vented to my husband about the irrationality of a society that stigmatizes something that helps rectify hearing loss.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024

Young people suffer in silence in a society that still stigmatizes mental health and sharing feelings.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024

“A national law that further stigmatizes these children is completely unnecessary and hurts families and students at greater risk,” the statement said.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 17, 2023

Sulpicius Severus, despite his horror of the Priscillianists, repeats over and over again that their condemnation was a deplorable example; he even stigmatizes it as a crime.

From The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church by Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis) Conway

Fur "was stigmatized for so long," Jacobs told AFP, posing before a full-length mirror and assessing a potential crop.

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

Some were less comfortable with the possibility of false positives, since there are often autistic people, or users whose first language isn’t English, whose writing styles are stigmatized as A.I.-like.

From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026

Nicole Coates, 39, of Meridian, Idaho, feels God asked her to speak up about her estrangement from her eldest child, who is 22, to help other estranged mothers and fathers feel less stigmatized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025

Constant surveillance, an inability to make decisions without the permission of a husband and even being stigmatized for smoking are among the tensions depicted in “The Circle.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025

Many perfectly good English constructions were stigmatized because they had no counterparts in the language of Lucretius and Cicero.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Even a clear definition of UPFs runs the risk of stigmatizing certain healthy foods.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026

“These Americans have biological markers of Alzheimer’s disease risk starting in their brain and detectable in their blood. It doesn’t mean all 47 million Americans have a stigmatizing diagnosis like Alzheimer’s.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

Hepatitis B also disproportionately affects immigrant communities, further stigmatizing an illness that first entered the mainstream consciousness as an early proxy for HIV infection in the 1980s, before it was fully understood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2025

"Anything that's just so black and white like that — unless, of course, it's true — you're stigmatizing the animal. You're stigmatizing the potential adopter. You're shaming the potential adopter," he told me.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024

I was put in the quandary of setting H. 3rd down as a little unintelligent or stigmatizing my art as ineffective, until I suddenly came upon the correct explanation.

From Seeing Things at Night by Heywood Broun