trauma
Example Sentences
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After a near fatality, he is saved by Carlos, a farmer and former combat medic battling his own trauma from the Mexican-American War.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
"Our broader analysis of local strandings both inside and outside San Francisco Bay found that over 40% of these whales died of trauma from vessels."
From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026
"There was no mark of violence or trauma on the body," she says.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
By helping patients confront their trauma, she developed a way to give them power over it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
By the time she had turned thirty, prison doctors diagnosed her with multiple sclerosis, intellectual disability, and mental illness related to trauma.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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