trauma
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In the letter, they said they were distressed by the "trauma that is being visited on the residents of the Garvaghy Road after 28 years of calm".
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The findings may help explain why something as different as a viral infection or psychological trauma can eventually produce overlapping symptoms.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Trauma-informed policing recognizes that trauma can affect behavior, memory, emotion, and a survivor’s ability to recount an experience—and that investigative practices themselves can either reduce or compound that trauma and any subsequent investigative challenges.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026
Much darker and more twisty than the weepy trauma dumps “It Ends With Us” or “Reminders of Him,” “Verity” is high camp with a wink, a hair toss and just enough bite to draw blood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Today they speak back, as individuals and as sovereign nations, against ongoing trauma and the consequences of conquest and terminal narratives.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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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
Such overwhelming traumas tear at the bonds that hold cultures together.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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
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
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