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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

“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

It is an error that the Texan rebellion was conceived in a spirit of sheer fraud upon Mexico; and writers who seek to stigmatize it thus are entirely ignorant of its origin.

From History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 by Brantz Mayer

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

What’s it like to be so public about your eating disorder in a culture that stigmatizes mental illness?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025

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

You may find people who think otherwise, but the universal sentiment of mankind stigmatizes such baseness and buries it under the weight of its opprobrium.

From Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals by John H. (John Henry) Stapleton

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

The new “King of the Hill” season takes aim at misogynist bro seminars, cultural appropriation in the restaurant world and how divorce is still stigmatized in many cultures, among other topics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025

Psychologists have long observed that when people feel hopelessly stigmatized, a powerful coping strategy—often the only apparent route to self-esteem—is embracing one’s stigmatized identity.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

Though they may be common, misdemeanors are deeply stigmatizing: 86 percent of employers use criminal background checks in their hiring process.

From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2024

The nationalists, stigmatizing the Rowlatt law as the "Black Cobra Act," were unmeasured in their condemnation.

From The New World of Islam by Lothrop Stoddard