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stigma

[stig-muh] / ˈstɪg mə /


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By making mental health conditions easier to understand through measurable physical information, the company hopes to reduce stigma and help patients better understand their experiences.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

One message reads: "Stop stigma, choose support. Stigma can discourage people from reporting symptoms or cooperating with response teams."

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

If television could hit something approaching the same cinematic highs and emotional depths as a Hollywood movie, even if rarely, then the stigma of going episodic couldn’t last.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

To prevent nightmare scenarios, regulators and advocates say the key is to first reduce the stigma around mental health and reduce the threat of pilots’ losing their income or license if they seek help.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Remarkably, even in communities devastated by mass incarceration, many people struggling to cope with the stigma of imprisonment have no idea that their neighbors are struggling with the same grief, shame, and isolation.

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

“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

The actor stars as the real-life priest who was known for exhibiting stigmata and was subsequently beatified and canonized by Pope John Paul II. Watch an exclusive trailer, via Variety.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2022

I was a bom-and-bred Catholic and thought immediately it was some sort of writing stigmata and that I should get to a church.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos


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