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How to use the word stigma in a Sentence?

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In an often luxury-filled environment, there used to be somewhat of a stigma surrounding wearing mid-tier brands, but it’s now more of a flex to say your low-rise cargo pants are from J. Crew than it is to say you’re wearing a Prada backpack, it’s a bragging right [for consumers] to say you’re on trend and within budget.

Chloe Baffert

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Whether Stryke Club’s young sensitive skin, or acne, eczema or their first shave, boys have specific skin needs, we also have to help them overcome this stigma about being a boy and engaging in self care.

Sheilagh Maguiness

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s perhaps a stigma associated with this word (3D printing), usually with printing you think of an industrial process. (But) it’s important to realize that this is no different than cooking normally except instead of chopping the ingredients up and everything like that, the machine is basically just assembling it in paste form.

Jonathan Blutinger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People felt that if they called it an STD from the get-go, it was going to create stigma, and because of the stigma of the type of sex that was occurring – oral sex, anal sex, anal sex between same-sex male partners – there may not have been the same kind of federal response, so it was actually a political calculation to garner the resources necessary to have a substantial response to be vague about how it spread.

Jeffrey Klausner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think there was a balancing dance of not wanting to create stigma, in terms of who is actually the highest rates of transmission without being forthright.

Tony Hoang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the key advantages is it helps create a stigma around surveillance, which is really important to encourage lawmakers to create meaningful rules, so the public can more intuitively resist really corrosive and dangerous kinds of surveillance.

Woodrow Hartzog

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We believe that stigma impacts our ability to raise funds significantly.

Beth Dean

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There's a huge amount of talent, they're just disconnected, so much of our work is around stigma reduction.

Amanda LaGrange

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's a large part of the political world that is ready to have a debate on legalizing marijuana and, frankly, taking away the stigma against cannabis is already a great victory for us.

Luis Felipe Ruiz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I didn't smoke a blunt because I wanted to make it cool or popular. People are doing this every day. This is the reality of the world we live in. What I did it for is so we could take the stigma away, because there are people in Congress that are smoking weed, okay? They may never openly say that they're smoking weed, but there are people in Congress who are smoking weed. Why? Because in D.C., it's not illegal.

Gary Chambers

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think being a man will help me to break down barriers, reduce stigma and encourage more open discussions. Although affecting women directly, periods are an issue for everyone, it's time to normalise these topics and get real around the subject.

Jason Grant

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The stigma of mental illness can't be something that influences response, it has to be officers who have a sensitivity and awareness of the issue and also understand that they have resources and tools that can assist them to ensure that a person does not harm themselves or others.

Johnny Rice

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Program after program talked about the fear and stigma that gay men are experiencing in relation to [ monkeypox ], the shortages of vaccine, the burned-out staff, the shortages of funding to cover what has been an unanticipated public health emergency.

Top Democrats

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s a stigma in this world that men can’t talk. … Listen, if you’re a man, and you’ve got weight on your shoulders, and if you think the only way you can solve it is by killing yourself, please speak to someone, speak to anyone. People would rather … I know I would rather have my mate cry on my shoulder than go to his funeral next week. So, please, let’s get rid of the stigma and men start talking.

Paddy Pimblett

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The misuse of mobile location and health information -- including reproductive health data -- exposes consumers to significant harm, the exposure of health information and medical conditions, especially data related to sexual activity or reproductive health, may subject people to discrimination, stigma, mental anguish, or other serious harms.

The Commission

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A super common issue that arises within relationships, casual or long-term, is lack of communication, approaching conversations about sex can be really difficult due to the stigma our society places on sex and the lack of guidance provided through our incredibly limited access to medically accurate and comprehensive sex education. But it is totally necessary.

Kristen Mark

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think about how fortunate I felt to be able to have both of my children, i know what it feels like to have a connection to what is growing inside of your body. What happens with our bodies is so deeply personal, which can also lead to silence and stigma, even though so many of us deal with personal health crises. I know what miscarrying feels like, which I’ve talked about publicly. The more that we normalize the conversation about the things that affect our lives and bodies, the more people are going to understand how necessary it is to have protections in place.

Meghan Markle

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There might be a little bit of a stigma with the word' hybrid,'.

Bill Visnic

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am still deeply troubled by the overwhelming stigma that I faced, that so many in my place still face.

Arielle Cohen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The stigma and isolation I faced made me extremely depressed, i was embarrassed that I was depressed and felt ashamed for not knowing how to talk about it.

Arielle Cohen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While the 2020 data shows that STDs increased among many groups, some racial and ethnic minority groups, gay and bisexual men and our nation's youth continue to bear the brunt of the epidemic, these data illustrate the factors such as lack of access to regular medical care, discrimination, and stigma, continue to stand in the way of quality sexual health care for everyone who needs it.

Leandro Mena

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Fox News has a history of sharing misinformation and disinformation about the LGBTQ + community, we know from our own research, which we put out earlier this week, what their disinformation and misinformation means for the LGBTQ + community : perpetuating stigma and marginalization of transgender and non-binary people. At a time when transgender people -- especially transgender children -- are under attack in statehouses across the country, rhetoric has real consequences.

Human Rights Campaign

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I continue to enjoy teaching my students day in and day out, but the stigma of being officially labeled a' bully' simply for using a student's enrolled last name has been disheartening, i love all my students, but I shouldn't be forced to contradict my core beliefs in order to teach math in a public school.

Pamela Ricard

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Transgender youth are more likely to consider suicide than their peers, and experience other mental health crises which are exacerbated when they face this kind of stigma and erasure in the classroom.

Melanie Willingham-Jaggers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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