stigma

She lost friends, her job and even ended up homeless for a period of time because of the stigma and effect on her.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

It makes them feel old, a stigma that those in the senior-housing industry are trying to address.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

These included the date of the first flower, flower size, nectar sugar, flowering time, and the distance between flowers' anthers, or the pollen-producing part of the flower, and the stigma, the structure that receives pollen.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Along with the stigma this created, the tactic allowed Flynn’s defense to claim she had cooperated with prosecutors under threat of a criminal charge for what the newspaper delicately called the “illegal operation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

The title of his book Invisible Stripes referred to the stigma that continued to hobble criminals after they’d done their time and left their striped uniforms for the streets.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Dating with a pet — any pet — brings with it obstacles, but our cat stigmas aren’t helping.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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

She said in addition to the different physical symptoms, there can be cultural pressures and stigmas at play among some black and Asian communities, where the topic of women's health can be a taboo.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 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

A student recently asked me about St. Francis of Assisi and 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

I was a bom-and-bred Catholic and thought immediately it was some sort of writing stigmata and that I should get to a church.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos