Example Sentences

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Stigmatizing this community, which is already suffering, is simply wrong.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2022

Stigmatizing and jailing criminals is a way of hiding the human wreckage of a dysfunctional society without addressing the dysfunctions.

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2020

Stigmatizing and preventing such an arms race should be a high priority for national and global security.

From The Verge • Jul. 18, 2018

Stigmatizing and suppressing your emotions won’t make them go away.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2018

Stigmatizing sickness is dangerous: It renders the sufferer as “other” and becomes a protective mechanism by which the healthy distance themselves, physically and psychologically, from the unwell.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2014