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usually disapproving
to describe or regard (something, such as a characteristic or group of people) in a way that shows strong disapproval
a legal system that stigmatizes juveniles as criminals
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Recent Examples of stigmatizes
Stating it from federal authority stigmatizes depression treatment and discourages people from seeking care.
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Jonathan Slater,
STAT,
13 May 2026
This reflects broader sexism in our culture that stigmatizes feminine emotion, including intimacy between mothers and sons.
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Sam Sussman
september 16,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
Opponents counter that the move stigmatizes low-income families and limits personal choice without addressing broader issues, such as food affordability and access to healthier options.
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Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Aug. 2025
Jonathan Slater,
STAT,
13 May 2026
This reflects broader sexism in our culture that stigmatizes feminine emotion, including intimacy between mothers and sons.
—
Sam Sussman
september 16,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
Opponents counter that the move stigmatizes low-income families and limits personal choice without addressing broader issues, such as food affordability and access to healthier options.
—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stigmatizes
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Also highlighted this year as finalists are fellow couture designer Julie de Libran as well as menswear labels EgonLab and Kartik Research.
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Netris labels its approach NAAM, for Network Automation, Abstraction, and Multi-Tenancy, and has become the platform neoclouds standardize on as the category takes shape.
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Neither government specifies how that logging should work across organizational boundaries, because the infrastructure to do so does not yet exist.
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They are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which specifies where and how to use them.
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Part of the Splash Jelly Drop collection, Tory Burch’s Mini Romy reworks one of the brand’s signature shapes into a bright aquatic blue that immediately calls to mind swimming pools and cloudless skies.
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If a street preacher shouts their sermon into a bullhorn on a public street, and a nearby business owner calls the police, who is in the right?
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The Work In Front Of Leadership The DTC brands that scale through the next five years will be the ones whose teams stop optimizing in parallel and start optimizing against the same model.
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Elsewhere, a large plume of smoke was seen rising near Moscow’s Sadovod trade center – which brands itself as Russia’s largest mall.
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The bill designates firing squads as the primary method of execution.
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The Department of Homeland Security designates which foreign countries qualify for TPS.
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The complaint names their former coworker, emergency room nurse Nolan Chismire, and alleges misconduct inside the emergency department that went on for years.
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The declaration names taxes only once because once was enough.
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On the outside the new face of the CLA is inflected with tri-star icons and glowing new tri-star headlights—a detail that denotes newer and fancier models—with a large Mercedes logo anchoring the grille.
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In flashbacks to Max’s time in Tarwater, Antosca uses black-and-white imagery that denotes not just a past time but a specific place.
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On the left, an approach that Neem terms post-American has taken root, pushing the arguments of the 1970s in an ever more emphatic direction.
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Perez, a Cuban-American attorney who terms out from the House this year, has emerged as one of Florida Republicans’ most influential and divisive figures.
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“Stigmatizes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stigmatizes. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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