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Her claim, she said, “is about whether government can use official authority to stigmatize a private citizen without facts, without process, without fairness, accountability, investigation or even an interview — not even a phone call.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

Critics of involuntary civil-commitment programs argue they violate civil liberties and stigmatize mental illness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

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

It is too much the fashion to stigmatize these men as prigs; pragmatic no doubt they were, conceited and self-confident, and, like all minorities, over-ardent.

From Maria Edgeworth by Zimmern, Helen

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

What’s it like to be so public about your eating disorder in a culture that stigmatizes mental illness?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025

I vented to my husband about the irrationality of a society that stigmatizes something that helps rectify hearing loss.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2024

Young people suffer in silence in a society that still stigmatizes mental health and sharing feelings.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2024

"Alas! yes; he firmly believes in it and stigmatizes the Viscount as the worst of scoundrels."

From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Flagg, Edmund

“Conversations about sexuality and gender diversity were either absent, heavily stigmatized, or framed as something foreign and unacceptable,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

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

During Jim Crow, blacks were severely stigmatized and segregated on the basis of race, but in their own communities they could find support, solidarity, acceptance—love.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

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

“We want to look at this as helping people get rid of head lice, versus stigmatizing and saying, ‘You have to go home, you can't come back to school,’” King said.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2024

He must not dictate under what aspect nature is to be considered, stigmatizing the one chosen, because his own bent is rather towards some other.

From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel