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stigma

[stig-muh] / ˈstɪg mə /


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"It's a lot of stigma when somebody is brought to a psychiatrist," she said.

From Barron's Jul. 19, 2026

Dickens is open about her role as a caregiver in part as a way to decrease the stigma around bringing that part of a person’s life to work, she said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 7, 2026

Still, young people say that living at home in 2026 doesn’t carry the stigma it once did because of how unaffordable life has become.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

It is a genuinely good thing that elected officials can speak openly about mental health challenges and get treatment without stigma.

From Salon Jul. 2, 2026

Eventually they were allowed to rebuild in wood only outside the city’s enlarged commercial district, but the stigma of their responsibility for the fire remained.”

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy

It’s also a testament to bygone stigmas and ascendant trends in American dining.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 19, 2026

And there’s a lot of cultural stigmas that she looks at when it comes to female and male gender roles.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 1, 2025

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

With their annual income at their fingertips, a family of saffron farmers pluck delicate crimson stigmas from crocus flowers grown high in India’s Kashmir Valley.

From Science Magazine Nov. 26, 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

These objects are deliberately mishandled, misappropriated, so they become, Hebdige writes, “a form of stigmata, tokens of a self-imposed exile.”

From New York Times Sep. 30, 2022

Many of these stigmata appear to be infected.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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