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trauma

[trau-muh, traw-] / ˈtraʊ mə, ˈtrɔ- /


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In the aftermath of their shared trauma, Charlie and Sam have grown into different brands of tough cookie, which doesn’t bode well for their getting along.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Has he always grasped these causal links between his childhood trauma and his subsequent career?

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

In a social media post, Waxman wrote that "victims need confidence that the justice process is fair and based on evidence, not myths and false assumptions about rape and trauma".

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

The trauma of that experience was probably far deeper and more injurious than we wanted to admit, so we just sort of sleepwalked as events cascaded around us, feeling emotionally distanced and impotent.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026

And yet here was Mia, causing poor Linda such trauma, as if she hadn’t been through enough, as if Mia were any kind of example of how to mother.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

If Raúl is working through his own traumas by creating Elsa, it’s enticing to speculate on Almodóvar’s reasons for making Raúl his onscreen surrogate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 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

Still others have argued that collectors are “damaged personalities who have been driven to collect in attempts to repair traumas experienced in early infancy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

For some, it has worsened their traumas, it said.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

His theory was that the problems of many troubled patients rested in forgotten psychic traumas, and through free association and the interpretation of dreams the key to the problems could be unlocked.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

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

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

He received several head traumata and suffered from enuresis in his early life.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various


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