Dopamine is a relay system that integrates all the sensory inputs that denote reward, and activates the desire to seek more, but it isn’t needed in itself to experience the joyful thrill of bliss.
In some cases, police and lawyers inflict further harm by misgendering and misnaming victims.
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Kristin Lam,
USA TODAY,
20 Nov. 2019
In the course of the initiative, Nigel Jeffries, MOLA’s ceramics specialist, has come to believe that witch bottles may have not only been miscategorized but misnamed: these bottles were likely medical objects, rather than magical ones.
The product, officially branded Physical Phones, passed $120,000 in sales in its first three days.
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Jennifer Liu
Valentina Duarte,
CNBC,
21 Feb. 2026
The collaboration includes curated in-stadium activations, branded storytelling across the club’s digital and social platforms, and experiences to highlight Della’s technology.
For example, research on fashion consumption has shown how wearing a veil, once widely stigmatized in urban and secular settings, gradually became seen as ordinary and even fashionable as more women openly adopted it.
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Emily Tanner,
The Conversation,
10 Feb. 2026
Fernando Gonzalez, the filmmaker behind Dante, believes psychedelics are becoming less stigmatized as more Americans realize their value as legitimate medication.
The collection launched with a look book styled by i-D magazine’s deputy editor Alex Kessler, and Campbell said the collection would be presented to buyers in a showroom during Paris’s June menswear fashion week.
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Violet Goldstone,
Footwear News,
18 Feb. 2026
Cocktail dresses and cozy twinsets have been swapped out for work-appropriate blazers and cardigans layered over shirts, though Rowe retained some of Jones’s flirty personality by dressing her in pieces such as a mini skirt, made more demure styled with stockings.
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