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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

But we need to be able to do so “in a way that doesn’t totally traumatize us and leave us distressed and at risk for heart health problems.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024

There are certainly examples of students and consumers of culture making suspect claims that certain words or images traumatize them.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2024

They’re a little more hands off with Ryan—nobody wants to traumatize a second grader.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

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

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

It traumatizes them and leads to worse outcomes later.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2019

“Use of such restraint traumatizes a person in emotional distress and exacerbates the condition and experience of the crisis for the individual,” she said in an email.

From New York Times ● May 13, 2016

“The Catcher in the Rye” is a text that is flatly impossible to decouple from its author: A book about trauma written in the midst of trauma by a traumatized man.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 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

Those choices will matter to a traumatized society whose members will insist on having a say in the decisions.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

She was wearing her white uniform and was on her way to take on other traumatized children.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

Fireworks are also traumatizing for pets, particularly dogs, which tremble and even bolt from their homes in fear.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

How would adolescents get through their fictional puberty if no one was traumatizing them?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Divorce is a traumatizing event, and your friend has moved on in a productive and forward-looking manner.

From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026

While that was traumatizing at the time, the finality helped my grieving.

From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026

I think she actually said “little boy,” but it was so traumatizing to hear that I may have blocked it out.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith