stigma
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There is also, in many countries outside the U.S., a social stigma attached to not seeking employment.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
It’s difficult to imagine that a single presented as playfully as this one will be taking a real hard look at its association with stigma and shame.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Kavita believed sharing a space with the shop helped remove some of the stigma that can come with asking for support.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
“Now when generations are coming of age, there’s no stigma, there’s nothing odd about shopping at a thrift store or shopping secondhand,” Reinhart said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Most return to impoverished neighborhoods in the Chicago area, bringing few resources and bearing the stigma of their prison record.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Limiting your travels due to potential racial stigmas is doing yourself a disservice.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Trust The Signs, they discuss the storyline, the stigmas and symptoms.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
It’s also a testament to bygone stigmas and ascendant trends in American dining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
These stigmas are not simply harmful — they are also unscientific.
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 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
Church figures who claimed to have experienced the stigmata wounds, including Padre Pio and Pope Francis’ namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, have inspired millions of Catholics.
From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2024
These objects are deliberately mishandled, misappropriated, so they become, Hebdige writes, “a form of stigmata, tokens of a self-imposed exile.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 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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