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Critics of involuntary civil-commitment programs argue they violate civil liberties and stigmatize mental illness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

“I can accept myself and the world can still stigmatize me,” McMillan Cottom said.

From Salon ● May 10, 2024

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

Not only do the opponents of the Karaites stigmatize Anan and his followers as the remnants of the disciples of Zadok and Boëthus, but the older Karaites expressly claim this origin.

From The Covenanters of Damascus; A Hitherto Unknown Jewish Sect by George Foot Moore

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

I vented to my husband about the irrationality of a society that stigmatizes something that helps rectify hearing loss.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024

China has long had a conservative culture that stigmatizes homosexuality, though it was decriminalized in 1997.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024

“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

The fourth satire of Lucilius stigmatizes the luxury and vices of the rich, and has been imitated by Persius in his third book.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop

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

Many who took part in the study, however, said they avoided seeking care either because they couldn’t afford it or because they worried they’d be stigmatized for having a mental health crisis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2025

Double negatives, ain’t, and other nonstandard forms soon became stigmatized by their association with the less prestigious dialects of English used by its poorer and less educated speakers.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

Clinicians “will go towards the less stigmatizing diagnosis, which is bipolar disorder,” he explained.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2024

The rare genius of Hawthorne has immortalized in his Scarlet Letter one mode of stigmatizing punishment common in New England.

From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle