trauma
Example Sentences
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The social compact that endured since that trauma was that Iranians would acquiesce to hardship and restrictions in return for a strong state that protects them from foreign attack.
“But Georgi kept wanting to get underneath it, to excavate it. Explore the fire, explore the trauma. She came in and said, ‘This show is about identity.’
From Los Angeles Times
“You’ve got a bunch of people that are experiencing a big ‘T’ trauma and trying to have conversations about money,” Gray said.
“A normalized culture of theft and unresolved trauma” make “immediate rosy change unlikely.”
From MarketWatch
Harper, with whom she happens to share a family trauma.
From Los Angeles Times
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