trauma
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“Many folks grow up with stories of financial losses and financial trauma, whether it’s someone they know or represented in the media,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
The loss has emptied his soul, leaving only the haunting impact of the unending trauma, and legacy, of war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
She argued it was the novel Turing needed to read at a pivotal moment in his life, adding that it must have been a "powerful moment for Turing amid so much trauma".
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
But the writers wanted to go beyond Aemond’s surface, to “a different place and excavate that trauma and vulnerability.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Mother, I must attend to my bowels. They are revolting against the trauma of the last twenty-four hours.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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That is where we break generational cycles and traumas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
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
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
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
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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
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 Freud, Sigmund
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
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