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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

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

We cannot stigmatize or discourage individuals who are seeking care in the emergency department, the only place that is always open and will never turn them away.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

His lordship's readiness to stigmatize, and even silence him, in this manner, wore any appearance but that of an honourable anxiety to meet and to defy his adversary.

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton

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

Young people suffer in silence in a society that still stigmatizes mental health and sharing feelings.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024

“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

"This is in full accordance with the national sentiment which stigmatizes affection which asks for equal return as shop-keeping."

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner

Here, Bamford is as honest and casually hysterical as she’s always been, discussing mental illness with the candor such a stigmatized and distorted topic deserves.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 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

I use the term racial caste in this book the way it is used in common parlance to denote a stigmatized racial group locked into an inferior position by law and custom.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

Though they may be common, misdemeanors are deeply stigmatizing: 86 percent of employers use criminal background checks in their hiring process.

From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2024

Olshansky, who specializes in demographics and gerontology, warned that while many people see the term "disabled" as neutral, there is still a risk of it being unintentionally pejorative and stigmatizing.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2024

Critics have a good-natured way of stigmatizing, for the initiated, all poetry that is not poetry, by saying that it is "elegant," "harmonious," or, worse than all, "descriptive."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various