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- verb transitive to remove the
disgraceful orignominious characterization from.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In addition to providing screening and counseling services, PMHP also trains healthcare providers to destigmatize mental illness in the communities they serve.
Ruth Messinger: Don't Forget About Perinatal Mental Health Ruth Messinger 2010
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In addition to providing screening and counseling services, PMHP also trains healthcare providers to destigmatize mental illness in the communities they serve.
Ruth Messinger: Don't Forget About Perinatal Mental Health Ruth Messinger 2010
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We must enact public education programs that destigmatize HIV testing and embed it into the fabric of people's lives.
Perry N Halkitis, Ph.D., M.S.: Re-Centering Science in the Fight Against AIDS Perry N Halkitis 2011
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I'm proud and grateful that this film is able to humanize and destigmatize the idea of who a day laborer is, and to free Wilmer's character--and the supporting cast of actual day laborers--from the awful and alienating stereotypes often attached to brown, working class immigrants.
S.J. Main: Writer/Director Jill Soloway Explores Latino Themes in Sundance Film 'Una Hora Por Favora' S.J. Main 2012
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We must enact public education programs that destigmatize HIV testing and embed it into the fabric of people's lives.
Perry N Halkitis, Ph.D., M.S.: Re-Centering Science in the Fight Against AIDS Perry N Halkitis 2011
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We must enact public education programs that destigmatize HIV testing and embed it into the fabric of people's lives.
Perry N Halkitis, Ph.D., M.S.: Re-Centering Science in the Fight Against AIDS Perry N Halkitis 2011
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We also need to overcome cultural influences that encourage and destigmatize divorce by making it so easy.
Beverly Willett: The Most Pioneering Divorce Reform Effort In 40 Years Beverly Willett 2011
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The condom distribution program is part of an ongoing collaboration between Kenya Red Cross, UN Populations Fund and the Government of Kenya in an effort to educate the public about sexual health and destigmatize safe sex practices.
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We also need to overcome cultural influences that encourage and destigmatize divorce by making it so easy.
Beverly Willett: The Most Pioneering Divorce Reform Effort In 40 Years Beverly Willett 2011
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I was also influenced by major memoirs of my "formative" years that helped to destigmatize depression, such as Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted and Elizabeth Wurztel's Prozac Nation.
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