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"Stigma" in a Sentence (18 examples)
We have to try to do away with the stigma behind many of society's ills. Shaming will only make things worse.
There is a terrible stigma against these people.
Sami spoke out against the stigma against mental health issues.
Reducing the stigma around violence by intimate partners, she said is critical in addressing this issue.
Pollination is vital to the approximately 250,000 species of flowering plants that depend on the transfer of pollen from flower anther to stigma to reproduce.
The stigma, the top of the flower’s female reproductive part, is covered in a sticky substance that catches and traps the pollen grains.
Depending on the specific plant species, the transfer of pollen from anther to stigma is achieved by wind, gravity, water, birds, bats, or insects.
Upon entering a flower, an insect such as a honey bee, brushes against the pollen on the outside of the anther and carries it to the stigma.
Sometimes, the pollen grains only need to reach the stigma of the same flower or another flower on the same plant. But often, the pollen must travel to the stigma of a flower on a different plant (but same plant species).
There's a stigma attached to living on a council estate.
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But to have as an enforced dining companion a man who was probably a Papist, certainly a rake, and bore the stigma of cowardice, was anathema.
Yet, because of the stigma around nursing home placement, it is hard to find advocates from among the natural advocacy groups the families. You don't see families organized around long-term care as you do around specific diseases.
Hence, the stigma attached to mental disorders in general forms the basis of the stigma towards women with mental health problems. […]
Coming into contact with the person affected by mental illness can help reduce the stigma that the public has towards the illness.
... the stigma in the United States about the lower class accessing “welfare,” […]
Bradly scowled - the stigmata of alarm. What ultimate threat to his peace and privacy did this dropping in by young Podson imply?
Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds.
Now you see just how the stamen gets its lusty dust onto the stigma / And why this frenzied chlorophyllous orgy starts in spring is no enigma!
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