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stigma

[stig-muh] / ˈstɪg mə /


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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

Of course, there is also the “gold digger” stigma.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Prince William helps to narrate the video, which aims to tackle the stigma around mental health and suicide, with 7,000 lives being lost to suicide each year in the UK.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

And the long, aggressive, yellowy stigma jutting from the center is like a jaundiced old man's finger.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Dating with a pet — any pet — brings with it obstacles, but our cat stigmas aren’t helping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

She said in addition to the different physical symptoms, there can be cultural pressures and stigmas at play among some black and Asian communities, where the topic of women's health can be a taboo.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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

Now Ferrara hasn’t even attempted a conventional biopic of the man born Francesco Forgione at the end of the 19th century, and who, according to some accounts, started displaying stigmata after an illness-plagued childhood.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

“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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