trauma
Example Sentences
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"There's something about just the trauma of having to go through something that makes me lose the trust in the market and how it works."
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
Nearly three years after a catastrophic storm tore through eastern Libya's port city of Derna killing almost 4,000 people the city is getting back on its feet, but the trauma persists.
From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026
For all the success—Grammys, Image Awards, Kennedy Center Honors and 90 million records sold—White, who died in 2016 at 74, never got past his early trauma.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Spoon-feeding this critical bit of dialogue early in the film allows Barker to heap as much violence, trauma and tropes onto Nikki’s character as possible, under the guise of thematic callbacks.
From Salon • Jun. 4, 2026
“Besides, it’s obvious he drowned. There are no other signs of trauma, no bullets, nothing. See?”
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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