- present participle of stigmatize.
Example Sentences
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Even a clear definition of UPFs runs the risk of stigmatizing certain healthy foods.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026
“These Americans have biological markers of Alzheimer’s disease risk starting in their brain and detectable in their blood. It doesn’t mean all 47 million Americans have a stigmatizing diagnosis like Alzheimer’s.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
Hepatitis B also disproportionately affects immigrant communities, further stigmatizing an illness that first entered the mainstream consciousness as an early proxy for HIV infection in the 1980s, before it was fully understood.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2025
“We want to look at this as helping people get rid of head lice, versus stigmatizing and saying, ‘You have to go home, you can't come back to school,’” King said.
From Salon • Aug. 25, 2024
It has the particular sense of stigmatizing the person addressed or in question as a dupe.
