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stigma

[stig-muh] / ˈstɪg mə /


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Madden, who received the initial script years ago, stressed that a Parkinson's diagnosis still carries a heavy stigma.

From Barron's Sep. 14, 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

She says the stigma of being a hoarder can stop people from seeking help.

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

At a time when mental illness carried a deep and almost ineradicable stigma, Elizebeth refused to let it create a chasm between her and her husband.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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

This isolation could also worsen stigmas associated with mental health care if people are talking about their emotions with these programs instead of with other humans, she added.

From Salon Mar. 30, 2025

The absolute honesty between the two actors was crucial for a film that is candid about the stigmas around disfigurement.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 23, 2024

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

At least get some kind of stigmata going.

From Slate Oct. 28, 2024

Church figures who claimed to have experienced the stigmata wounds, including Padre Pio and Pope Francis’ namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, have inspired millions of Catholics.

From Seattle Times May 16, 2024

Now Ferrara hasn’t even attempted a conventional biopic of the man born Francesco Forgione at the end of the 19th century, and who, according to some accounts, started displaying stigmata after an illness-plagued childhood.

From New York Times Jun. 1, 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




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