traumatize
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In this way, “The Sheep Detectives” recalls an earlier era of children’s movies that weren’t afraid to lightly traumatize their young audiences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
“This country has done nothing but traumatize me in the last six months. Maybe I’ll just move to Spain.”
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2025
But we need to be able to do so “in a way that doesn’t totally traumatize us and leave us distressed and at risk for heart health problems.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
There are certainly examples of students and consumers of culture making suspect claims that certain words or images traumatize them.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2024
I mean, it might traumatize the baby slightly.
From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling
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When you have people saying this artwork traumatizes me, it hurts me, and it’s not generating a conversation, then you have to wonder: What is its purpose?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
But experiencing trauma with the understanding that it is in a dream traumatizes others all over again, she said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
Writing from her own experience, O'Neil digs into the ways in which shame conditions and traumatizes those whose bodies don't adhere to beauty industry norms.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2022
When patients tell her they’re using an at-home file, “I cringe, because what that does is it actually traumatizes the skin, and then your body gets drier and it adds more calluses,” she said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2022
It traumatizes them and leads to worse outcomes later.
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2019
Etna also possesses a traumatized sadness and wisdom familiar from conventional war fiction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
“The baby boom generation is still traumatized by the bubble,” says Jesper Koll, global ambassador for booster group FinCity.Tokyo.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
As one battered, traumatized survivor declares at the battle’s conclusion, “If this be victory, I hope I never see another.”
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
Those choices will matter to a traumatized society whose members will insist on having a say in the decisions.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
She was wearing her white uniform and was on her way to take on other traumatized children.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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Fireworks are also traumatizing for pets, particularly dogs, which tremble and even bolt from their homes in fear.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
How would adolescents get through their fictional puberty if no one was traumatizing them?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Divorce is a traumatizing event, and your friend has moved on in a productive and forward-looking manner.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
While that was traumatizing at the time, the finality helped my grieving.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026
All of these questions ran through my mind at the thought of the story and of all the traumatizing things that women faced.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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