stigma
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That was something, especially when we started shooting, that we all talked about, because we were like, “We’ve never been in a place where it didn’t feel like there was a stigma against it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Tattoo artist Martha Smith specialises in fine line and dot work tattoos and thinks stigma has "changed massively"
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
“The stigma cast upon him—and by extension, his loved ones—and the daily pressure and anxiety he endured undoubtedly played a role,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
"It's a lot of stigma when somebody is brought to a psychiatrist," she said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
You must make a commitment to winning the remaining games or be prepared to have the stigma of being called a loser attached to your team for the rest of history.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
Limiting your travels due to potential racial stigmas is doing yourself a disservice.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
It’s also a testament to bygone stigmas and ascendant trends in American dining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
And there’s a lot of cultural stigmas that she looks at when it comes to female and male gender roles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
It could also break down longstanding stigmas surrounding mental health — as seeking help becomes something you can do at the touch of a button.
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 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
It's not whether or not he really received the stigmata.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2025
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
Many of these stigmata appear to be infected.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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