trauma
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Greene-Placentia told the Arizona outlet that her campaign promise of fighting for all constituents moved her to report her trauma.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Zion Regev, a community leader, said most surviving residents had yet to return to their homes because of the trauma of what happened.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Causes may include uncontrolled high blood pressure, trauma from a fall or accident, or overtreatment of blood thinners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Schuster had worked with Hijazi to process that trauma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Once inside the trauma center at Clarion County Hospital, Nikki was put on a respirator and wrapped in blankets.
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
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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
"It's good to help others get through major disasters and traumas."
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The Lincoln’s fate has been the most heavily publicized, but it isn’t the only aircraft carrier to suffer these traumas.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Patients were tired of being told that their debilitating psychological problems . . . were caused by childhood traumas or bad parenting.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
But he was still recovering from the trauma of the war as well as some serious traumas that preceded his military experience.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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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
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
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
He received several head traumata and suffered from enuresis in his early life.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
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