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trauma

[trau-muh, traw-] / ˈtraʊ mə, ˈtrɔ- /


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There is also an elevated risk associated with the trauma of injury or from the lack of movement during a recovery.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Yet he says neither side is lying, something that is “not confusing if you understand the trauma that native peoples are still experiencing to this day.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

Meanwhile, the 800 Jambos in attendance - and the thousands back in Gorgie - were going through their own football trauma.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Vanetsky said her grandson was struggling at home in the wake of the trauma he'd been through.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

“You can’t frighten me. I’ve already had my trauma for the day.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

"It's good to help others get through major disasters and traumas."

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Brooke Warner, publisher of She Writes Press and co-host of the Memoir Nation podcast, says this has put pressure on memoirists to push the envelope and find ever-more-shocking traumas to mine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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

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

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


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