traumatic
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She suffered a traumatic brain injury and a broken elbow and needed three blood transfusions and skin grafts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“We are so proud of our daughter and love her so much. The way she has conducted herself through many traumatic health issues is a lesson to us all.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
"It's been very traumatic for us as a family," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
He didn’t recognize what those traumatic experiences he’d tried to bury did to him, not until he started to talk about them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
It’s often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, “Stay there. Don’t move.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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