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De-shame debt Debt, whether from student loans or credit cards, can feel like a scarlet letter.
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Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
Like the unnamed narrator who finds Hester Prynne’s scarlet letter in the Salem Custom House and then sets about telling her tale, Banks’s narrators are anonymous busybodies and town gossips, nosy neighbors or observers once removed from the action.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024
The two medical students were surprised that in Chicago, adding ketchup could earn someone a scarlet letter.
—Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
But even those reactionaries to the shifting sensibilities are poised to arrive late at the party or have their shifts come across as insincere or forced to wear the scarlet letter of sellout.
—Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2024
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Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
Like the unnamed narrator who finds Hester Prynne’s scarlet letter in the Salem Custom House and then sets about telling her tale, Banks’s narrators are anonymous busybodies and town gossips, nosy neighbors or observers once removed from the action.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024
The two medical students were surprised that in Chicago, adding ketchup could earn someone a scarlet letter.
—Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
But even those reactionaries to the shifting sensibilities are poised to arrive late at the party or have their shifts come across as insincere or forced to wear the scarlet letter of sellout.
—Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2024
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“Scarlet letter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scarlet%20letter. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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