stigmatize
Example Sentences
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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
Many feared the decision could further stigmatize the shot in a moment when many parents are refusing it simply because the recommendation is under review.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025
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
We stigmatize the cast-iron fellows, who cannot so detach themselves, as “dragon-ridden,” “thunder-stricken,” and fools of fate, with whatever powers endowed.
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
Vocabulary lists containing stigmatize
The Federalist Papers, No. 1 by Alexander Hamilton
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