as in to label
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 stigmatize
This should not permanently stigmatize 60 Minutes or CBS News.
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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 14 July 2025
And alcoholism was much more stigmatized back then.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2025
Mental health care is often expensive, stigmatized or simply unavailable.
—Sreedhar Potarazu, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2025
Akinola mentioned how people with illnesses are stigmatized and how people can stigmatize health care professionals, and don’t have faith in them.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2025
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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 14 July 2025
And alcoholism was much more stigmatized back then.
—Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2025
Mental health care is often expensive, stigmatized or simply unavailable.
—Sreedhar Potarazu, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2025
Akinola mentioned how people with illnesses are stigmatized and how people can stigmatize health care professionals, and don’t have faith in them.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stigmatize
Verb
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Stock image of a person labeling a package for shipment.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
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Instead of labeling someone as unwilling, leaders can ask questions to uncover what is behind hesitation.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Cannon-Brookes wouldn’t specify whether Atlassian considered buying Google’s browser.—
Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
4 Sep. 2025
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Eufy didn’t specify if the Marwalker will eventually be compatible with other robot vacuums.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Score T-shirts, sweatpants and long-sleeve shirts branded with your team’s logo and colors.—
Christopher Murray
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FOXNews.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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Unexplained aerial phenomena, commonly branded as UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) and more recently as UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena), remain one of history’s most enduring enigmas.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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The ownership team is 85% made up of Black people from neighborhoods designated by the state as particularly hard hit by marijuana criminalization, the younger Richardson said.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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The Florida Department of Health designated the south side of the causeway as a bathing beach and, because of that, the agency conducts regular testing of the southeast side.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Wilson was named the starter during training camp, and that remains the case to begin the regular season.—
Kevin McCormick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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The team raked in nearly $250 million in sponsorship revenue in 2024, behind only the Cowboys, according to another person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly.—
Michael Ozanian,
CNBC,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Southlake Carroll’s game against Hebron was also called official with the Dragons leading 35-7 in the third quarter.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Sep. 2025
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Representatives for James have called the fraud claims made against her politically motivated and false.—
Robert Faturechi,
ProPublica,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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His Zoom profile photo shows two versions of Boulud staring at each other through a mirror—one in black and one in white—clearly meant to denote good and evil.—
Brittany Loggins,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
3 Sep. 2025
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Note that the correlation 1D_5D denotes the correlation between 1D post-earnings returns and the following 5D returns.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The Fisher Protocol, as it was termed, makes vivid the reality that nuclear war, so often spoken of in the bloodless language of tactics and strategy, is unimaginably horrific.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
2 Sep. 2025
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Joe Carollo, the current District 3 commissioner, is termed out at the end of the year and weighing a run for mayor.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Stigmatize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stigmatize. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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