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trauma

[trou-muh, traw-] / ˈtraʊ mə, ˈtrɔ- /


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Neither of us felt particularly protected by the law of marriage, and both of us had trauma around the crumbling reality of it.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Alcott's injury is more akin to running into something very fast – technically known as a blunt trauma injury.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

What was incredible about taking all this time was actually getting to see him grow and come to terms with those losses and that trauma in his own way.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

But Federico suggests that avoidance may actually do the most harm in exacerbating trauma symptoms.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

The records show what Reggie was doing, and it was fair to assume he’d lied rather than forgotten what happen because of the trauma.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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

The repercussions of this method still reverberate through Panettiere’s life today, with the actress musing: “I’ve often wondered whether—unintentionally—I’ve brought on my traumas because I’m wired to think they’re good for me.”

From MarketWatch Jun. 26, 2026

This is a cat and mouse — or cats and mice — melodrama, with customized stock characters given dark secrets and backstory traumas less as explanation than complication.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 4, 2026

Both Clark and Mary wrestle with their individual traumas, but the specific points of their histories are explored with less interest than the Backrooms themselves.

From Salon May 30, 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

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

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

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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