trauma
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Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma surgeon from California who had worked with both Abu Shaaira and Odainy during his time in Gaza, described the attack as “an unforgivable crime.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
Operators say many visitors are seeking an emotional release during some of the most difficult periods of their lives, including bereavement, trauma, relationship breakdowns and stress.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
When you’re interviewing someone who has gone through a terrible trauma, how have you thought about asking them to retell it for a public audience, having been in that position over and over again yourself?
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2026
Their bruise-hued palettes—blue, pink, purple, yellow—become our own in an act of transformational trauma made beautiful.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Today they speak back, as individuals and as sovereign nations, against ongoing trauma and the consequences of conquest and terminal narratives.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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"I think that the traumas that we suffer as a child not fitting into your skin, into your identity, I think that then can play out later in life," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Others are putting their money on Antiguan-American author Jamaica Kincaid, whose work deals with exile, identity and the traumas inherited from colonialism, or on Chinese writer Can Xue.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
The Lincoln’s fate has been the most heavily publicized, but it isn’t the only aircraft carrier to suffer these traumas.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
Posing painful questions to ourselves about our own traumas and struggles can be therapeutic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
We rowed past the old lighthouse, tranquil in the distance, which only last night had been the scene of so many traumas.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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We shall refer later on to those other exactly similar cases of cyclical depression which can nevertheless easily be traced back to mental traumata.
From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Sigmund Freud
He received several head traumata and suffered from enuresis in his early life.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
The principal causes of primary keratitis are traumata and infection from the conjunctiva.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
Absorption takes place from the inner surface of the uterus or from traumata in the genital canal.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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