trauma
Example Sentences
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On Tuesday, several family members were in parliament as the state's health minister apologised for the "enduring distress, anger, pain, grief and trauma".
From BBC • May 19, 2026
Past forced contact with outsiders brought trauma, including disease outbreaks that devastated Indigenous populations lacking immunity.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
"It's triggered by situations and circumstances that remind them of the trauma, and so they get these intrusive memories," he said.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
“This is going to be a tougher year for taxes than prior years,” said former supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who pushed through a property tax ballot measure in 2002 to fund the county’s trauma care network.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
I swung my feet off the edge of the bed and grimaced: deep tissue trauma to the medial-poloni in the right leg.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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