trauma

Example Sentences

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“Looking at what Mamdani just did to me, and more broadly is doing to the City of New York, is triggering of the trauma I went through in Chicago,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

The London Ambulance Service treated four patients at the scene, taking two of them to a major trauma centre and two to a local hospital.

From BBC • May 3, 2026

When voters approved Measure B in 2002 to fund the county’s trauma center network, an audit years later found the county couldn’t account for whether the money actually had been spent on emergency medical services.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Viles Dorsainvil, the executive director of Haitian Community Support Center, calls it a lasting trauma that the immigrant population and their children will carry with them beyond this administration.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2026

I remember the thing that caused the trauma, but I don’t hold on to the trauma.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah