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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

Nor was the cause which, about 1840 or 1850, began to retard the growth of population here to be found in the climate which Mr. Clibborne stigmatizes so severely.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park

Here, Bamford is as honest and casually hysterical as she’s always been, discussing mental illness with the candor such a stigmatized and distorted topic deserves.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 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

For a time, Byerley belonged to a social-media movement that has given antidepressants a makeover—from a stigmatized medicine to a healthy lifestyle accessory for enlightened and empowered young women.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025

In this formulation, all forms of authority not originating within the self were stigmatized and placed on the permanent defensive.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

As Valda says, the Supreme Court has suggested that allowing prayer in school then forcing certain children to opt out would be stigmatizing for those children.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025

He began by stigmatizing Hale’s precept as a mere piece of advice to juries, rather than a maxim of law.

From The Queen Against Owen by Allen Upward