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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

Many feared the decision could further stigmatize the shot in a moment when many parents are refusing it simply because the recommendation is under review.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

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

The Duke of Bedford, when the ill-starred Jeanne fell into his hands, took away her life in order to stigmatize her memory with sorcery, and to destroy the reputation she had acquired among the French.”

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer

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

“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

Dr. Devika Bhushan, a pediatrician and California’s former acting surgeon general, said that as much as society stigmatizes people who are diagnosed with bipolar disorder, people also struggle with internalized shame.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 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

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

Nicole Coates, 39, of Meridian, Idaho, feels God asked her to speak up about her estrangement from her eldest child, who is 22, to help other estranged mothers and fathers feel less stigmatized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 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

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

The chagrin caused by this exposure found its vent in the non-Catholic journals of the time, stigmatizing in the broadest terms the loyalty of Catholics.

From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham