traumatize
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In this way, “The Sheep Detectives” recalls an earlier era of children’s movies that weren’t afraid to lightly traumatize their young audiences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
“This country has done nothing but traumatize me in the last six months. Maybe I’ll just move to Spain.”
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2025
He worries that this will traumatize his community in perpetuity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2025
There are certainly examples of students and consumers of culture making suspect claims that certain words or images traumatize them.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2024
They’re a little more hands off with Ryan—nobody wants to traumatize a second grader.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
When you have people saying this artwork traumatizes me, it hurts me, and it’s not generating a conversation, then you have to wonder: What is its purpose?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
Writing from her own experience, O'Neil digs into the ways in which shame conditions and traumatizes those whose bodies don't adhere to beauty industry norms.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2022
When patients tell her they’re using an at-home file, “I cringe, because what that does is it actually traumatizes the skin, and then your body gets drier and it adds more calluses,” she said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2022
It traumatizes them and leads to worse outcomes later.
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2019
And fleeing war traumatizes many migrants, further complicating their assimilation.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2015
Men here, some of whom have served decades, are deeply traumatized.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
“The baby boom generation is still traumatized by the bubble,” says Jesper Koll, global ambassador for booster group FinCity.Tokyo.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
As one battered, traumatized survivor declares at the battle’s conclusion, “If this be victory, I hope I never see another.”
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
“That was the most disgusting inappropriate show. I had to make all of my children go into the next room!” wrote one traumatized Las Vegas viewer.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2026
I decided that they both must have been traumatized as teenagers.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Fireworks are also traumatizing for pets, particularly dogs, which tremble and even bolt from their homes in fear.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Divorce is a traumatizing event, and your friend has moved on in a productive and forward-looking manner.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
An important study from Australia found that in the last few decades we have really lowered the threshold to what is labeled harmful, abusive, traumatizing and neglectful behavior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
Both instances are deeply traumatizing and lead to mistrust of the police.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2025
“This must be very traumatizing for you. It’s not every day one finds out his father is actually a pretty nice guy.”
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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