traumatic
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Brown said a forensic post-mortem examination found Mr Buxton had suffered a traumatic brain injury – a craniofacial trauma.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
He didn’t recognize what those traumatic experiences he’d tried to bury did to him, not until he started to talk about them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
They are often the places where the legacies of once-powerful empires are at their most traumatic or unresolved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Reforms should "take into account victim-survivors' traumatic reactions", Florence Tsang, a trauma counsellor at the sexual violence crisis centre RainLily, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
I can’t place the memory specifically in time; I imagine this is one of those traumatic moments that Dr. Keyes worked so hard to help me forget, but somehow it still lingers.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
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