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Security becomes a "label" desired by many governments, projecting thus an image of a seductive, safe and friendly country.
A diagnosis all too quickly becomes a label by which an individual is defined and judged, which in turn becomes a catalyst for stigma and discrimination.
As in Knoblauch's case, the problem escalates in the glare of media attention and becomes a label the player often finds hard to shed.
Simply, if Yelp's filter marked a review as not-recommended, that becomes a label for us associated to the particular reviewer as fake and vice-versa.
Labeling someone as permanently unconscious becomes a label and a prison.
They take a nice word like "liberal," pummel it to death with nonsense, and by the time they're done, it becomes a label so awful that politicians trip over themselves running away from it.
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It has become a label tarnished with negative connotations and "labels, whatever they are, are not cool," she says.
For some, it implied freedom from the identity politics of an earlier generation; for others, a rejection of a label that threatened to become a label in itself.
"Sunscreen brands can also change their ingredients, so it's better to become a label reader than to look for a specific brand," Morel adds.
You point out that the word "American," too, was once an insult, directed at the colonists by the English, but that, obviously, the word has become a label of pride.
"Sanctuary" has become a label, seen as an honor by some and as an insult by others.
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