traumatize
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Johnston carries the film and the emotional core, but Navarrette delivers the kind of instantly classic horror turn that will surely traumatize Gen Z for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
In this way, “The Sheep Detectives” recalls an earlier era of children’s movies that weren’t afraid to lightly traumatize their young audiences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
“This country has done nothing but traumatize me in the last six months. Maybe I’ll just move to Spain.”
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2025
This crackdown has the potential to traumatize U.S. citizens, too.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025
“We didn’t mean to traumatize you. This isn’t how I imagined this going.”
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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When you have people saying this artwork traumatizes me, it hurts me, and it’s not generating a conversation, then you have to wonder: What is its purpose?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
But experiencing trauma with the understanding that it is in a dream traumatizes others all over again, she said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
Advocates for people experiencing homelessness have expressed dismay and alarm with the mayor’s position, which they say often criminalizes the city’s most vulnerable residents and can further traumatizes many of them, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
Writing from her own experience, O'Neil digs into the ways in which shame conditions and traumatizes those whose bodies don't adhere to beauty industry norms.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2022
When patients tell her they’re using an at-home file, “I cringe, because what that does is it actually traumatizes the skin, and then your body gets drier and it adds more calluses,” she said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2022
With a PG-13 rating that gets away with quite a bit, the action harkens back to the days of “Poltergeist,” a PG-rated film that had whole families walking out of the theater traumatized and silent.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
“He said, ‘I’m a traumatized human being who hasn’t moved on and I want some resolution,’” Krook recalls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
“The baby boom generation is still traumatized by the bubble,” says Jesper Koll, global ambassador for booster group FinCity.Tokyo.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Court reporters—who often rely on nonverbal cues and work with traumatized witnesses—are an example of AI’s limitations in replacing human skill in the real world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
And it might be that some coaches somewhere would delay a tryout on an afternoon when some of the tryoutees have just been traumatized by two gigantic rats falling out of their classroom ceiling.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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Fireworks are also traumatizing for pets, particularly dogs, which tremble and even bolt from their homes in fear.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Divorce is a traumatizing event, and your friend has moved on in a productive and forward-looking manner.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
Both instances are deeply traumatizing and lead to mistrust of the police.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2025
“It’s degrading and traumatizing to experience your own identity being distorted without your consent,” Smith said, now age 43.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
You could tell how traumatizing the last eighteen months since Walter's arrest had been.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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