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trauma

[trau-muh, traw-] / ˈtraʊ mə, ˈtrɔ- /


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Has he always grasped these causal links between his childhood trauma and his subsequent career?

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

Raising two children while watching her own parents grow older, she’s become increasingly curious about intergenerational trauma and how experiences are passed down through families.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

"It is impossible to process a trauma without discussion and asking questions."

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

The trauma of that experience was probably far deeper and more injurious than we wanted to admit, so we just sort of sleepwalked as events cascaded around us, feeling emotionally distanced and impotent.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 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

If Raúl is working through his own traumas by creating Elsa, it’s enticing to speculate on Almodóvar’s reasons for making Raúl his onscreen surrogate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

He knew the details of his family traumas might shatter his public image.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

"I think that the traumas that we suffer as a child not fitting into your skin, into your identity, I think that then can play out later in life," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

His theory was that the problems of many troubled patients rested in forgotten psychic traumas, and through free association and the interpretation of dreams the key to the problems could be unlocked.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

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

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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