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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

“I can accept myself and the world can still stigmatize me,” McMillan Cottom said.

From Salon ● May 10, 2024

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

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024

“Our Board of Supervisors knows that these conditions beneath human dignity stigmatize and traumatize people and make all of us less safe.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

His lordship's readiness to stigmatize, and even silence him, in this manner, wore any appearance but that of an honourable anxiety to meet and to defy his adversary.

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton

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

China has long had a conservative culture that stigmatizes homosexuality, though it was decriminalized in 1997.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 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

History must do justice even to the men whose brutal violence she stigmatizes and reproves.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Robert Black

Perhaps the most telling moment came when Whoopi Goldberg raised the issue of race, asking what Black Americans had done to deserve being stigmatized by the administration.

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026

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

The Wall Street Journal spoke with Fletcher about how people with dementia could use technology to lead longer, less stigmatized and more productive work lives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

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

As Valda says, the Supreme Court has suggested that allowing prayer in school then forcing certain children to opt out would be stigmatizing for those children.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025

Olshansky, who specializes in demographics and gerontology, warned that while many people see the term "disabled" as neutral, there is still a risk of it being unintentionally pejorative and stigmatizing.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2024

It has the particular sense of stigmatizing the person addressed or in question as a dupe.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Garrick Mallery