trauma
Example Sentences
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We don’t have a real sense of how these characters are going to process the aftermath of what they’ve experienced, or how they’ll handle the trauma.
From Los Angeles Times
She warns trauma has an impact that lasts long into the future.
From BBC
Belle Lin: Right, there’s a lot of remaining trauma from the days of cloud lock-in where if you were in the Google ecosystem or the Amazon ecosystem or the Microsoft ecosystem, you were stuck there.
Syrians are only now starting to make sense of the trauma and paranoia caused by the system a year after the regime’s collapse.
Despite having an "incredible" bond with his dad, deep-held trauma meant his father struggled to cope and was "in and out" of his life, complicating their relationship.
From BBC
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