trauma
Example Sentences
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And yet, she said, “Under the surface there is so much pain, and there’s trauma.”
From Los Angeles Times
Healthcare workers rushed to hospitals when they heard of the attack, whether or not they were on shift, confronting unspeakable trauma to save lives.
From BBC
He would become a pre-eminent scholar of disasters and spend the rest of his long career illuminating the corrosive, collective traumas left in their wake.
It was really nice speaking with Oscar about some of the themes that the film explores, the father-son dynamic and breaking cycles of generational trauma.
From Los Angeles Times
He asks me to leave the specifics out of this story, given the industry’s litigious nature and the lingering trauma of this decades-old battle.
From Salon
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