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trauma

[trau-muh, traw-] / ˈtraʊ mə, ˈtrɔ- /


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Thirty-five years later, Pauline Love Thomson has spoken for the first time about the trauma of that April morning when she was just 16.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

The challenge of helping little ones process the trauma is acute for caregivers of children with special needs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

I believe it helps enormously to know that this was a shared, collective trauma, and that many millions of people around the world also went through what you experienced.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

The certificate lists Mackie’s cause of death as a subarachnoid hemorrhage and blunt head trauma.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

"Let 'em deal with that emotional trauma when they're not flying a spaceship around."

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

There were hardships and traumas, periods of institutionalization.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

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

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

They had grandparents for the kids to stay with, so they did not go—as tens of thousands do each year—into state custody, with the many attendant traumas that entails.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

There’s, like, ten different potential historical traumas that have messed us up enough that we can still talk to dead people, I guess.”

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

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

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

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

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


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