stigma
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"It's a lot of stigma when somebody is brought to a psychiatrist," she said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
Often there’s a social stigma associated with eldercare, said Nicole Jorwic, chief program officer at Caring Across Generations, an advocacy organization.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
Still, young people say that living at home in 2026 doesn’t carry the stigma it once did because of how unaffordable life has become.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
It is a genuinely good thing that elected officials can speak openly about mental health challenges and get treatment without stigma.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
If he did that, he knew there was only stigma attached to me.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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
This isolation could also worsen stigmas associated with mental health care if people are talking about their emotions with these programs instead of with other humans, she added.
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2025
A group in Londonderry say they hope a new mural in the city centre will help tackle stigmas around breastfeeding.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024
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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