stigma
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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
"It describes the reality of the situation and I think that's important both for parents to accept what happened but also for us to break the stigma and taboo around this particular loss," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
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
Even when released from the system’s formal control, the stigma of criminality lingers.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Fenton warned the policy could bring stigmas about using the toilet in school to "a whole new level".
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 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
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
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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