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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
destigmatize .
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It really destigmatized it and actually enhanced the reputation for people by being a graduate of Betty Ford rehab, says Fischoff, a professor emeritus of California State University-Los Angeles and now of Carbondale, Ill.
Betty Ford told her story of addiction and left a legacy 2011
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Some day, nuclear power will be destigmatized, we'll all be running on it, and private groups will be able to use nuclear engines for their lunar theme park, and next thing you know, trips to Titan are plausible.
Other Names Indicate Greening of NASA, Focus on Science - NASA Watch 2009
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It really destigmatized it and actually enhanced the reputation for people by being a graduate of Betty Ford rehab, says Fischoff, a professor emeritus of California State University-Los Angeles and now of Carbondale, Ill.
Betty Ford told her story of addiction and left a legacy 2011
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It really destigmatized it and actually enhanced the reputation for people by being a graduate of Betty Ford rehab, says Fischoff, a professor emeritus of California State University-Los Angeles and now of Carbondale, Ill.
Betty Ford told her story of addiction and left a legacy 2011
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I agree that gender dysphoria urgently needs to be destigmatized; and no longer categorizing it as a mental illness would, in theory, be a great step forward.
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So call me lukewarm when it comes to the dangers of wacky tabacky, and hopeful about the potential good from destigmatized research and industrial use.
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So as clotheslines are destigmatized more families will be hanging their clean laundry in public.
Printing: Clotheslines Are Back--and So Are Their Problems 2009
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So as clotheslines are destigmatized more families will be hanging their clean laundry in public.
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From Mapplethorpe to MTV, from the Fox network to fashion advertising, looking at sex is creeping out of the private sphere and into the public, gentrified by artsy pretension and destigmatized out of viral necessity.
THE SELLING OF SEX 2008
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Writing in The Nation, Katha Pollit reminds us that the women's movement destigmatized single parenthood a long time ago.
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