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They have “done nothing but stigmatize, discredit, intimidate, leave unprotected, and sow hatred against the media, journalists, and critics.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Her claim, she said, “is about whether government can use official authority to stigmatize a private citizen without facts, without process, without fairness, accountability, investigation or even an interview — not even a phone call.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

The behaviors that Gerdes' bill seeks to stigmatize are — as any person who has ever met a child or been a child could tell you — entirely normal forms of play.

From Salon ● May 12, 2025

Virologists have also come to acknowledge that names can stigmatize people or places.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024

He must not be allowed to stigmatize vigor and health and freshness of feeling and the young heart and the agile foot as old merely because of a certain number of years.

From From the Easy Chair, series 2 by George William Curtis

The label stigmatizes Cambodia and its citizens, while these criminal networks are transnational and largely foreign-led.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

What’s it like to be so public about your eating disorder in a culture that stigmatizes mental illness?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025

“Our culture stigmatizes mental illness, and this is being deliberately leveraged in a disease where there is not very good evidence of a mental health connection,” she says.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2023

“A national law that further stigmatizes these children is completely unnecessary and hurts families and students at greater risk,” the statement said.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 17, 2023

It stigmatizes law as the machinery of injustice; it sneers at society as hollow-hearted corruption and insincerity; it brands politics as a reeking mass of rottenness, and scoffs at morality as the tinsel of sin.

From Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales by Robert L. Taylor

Perhaps the most telling moment came when Whoopi Goldberg raised the issue of race, asking what Black Americans had done to deserve being stigmatized by the administration.

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026

Fur "was stigmatized for so long," Jacobs told AFP, posing before a full-length mirror and assessing a potential crop.

From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026

Some were less comfortable with the possibility of false positives, since there are often autistic people, or users whose first language isn’t English, whose writing styles are stigmatized as A.I.-like.

From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026

Since Gilberg opened his practice in 1965, psychiatry and psychotherapy have gone from highly stigmatized secrets to something people acknowledge in award show acceptance speeches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2026

In this formulation, all forms of authority not originating within the self were stigmatized and placed on the permanent defensive.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Even a clear definition of UPFs runs the risk of stigmatizing certain healthy foods.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026

“These Americans have biological markers of Alzheimer’s disease risk starting in their brain and detectable in their blood. It doesn’t mean all 47 million Americans have a stigmatizing diagnosis like Alzheimer’s.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

Hepatitis B also disproportionately affects immigrant communities, further stigmatizing an illness that first entered the mainstream consciousness as an early proxy for HIV infection in the 1980s, before it was fully understood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2025

As Valda says, the Supreme Court has suggested that allowing prayer in school then forcing certain children to opt out would be stigmatizing for those children.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025

I resolved to attack his fame, and found some passages in cursory reading, which gave me hopes of stigmatizing him as a plagiary.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson