traumatize
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Johnston carries the film and the emotional core, but Navarrette delivers the kind of instantly classic horror turn that will surely traumatize Gen Z for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
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
This crackdown has the potential to traumatize U.S. citizens, too.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025
“We didn’t mean to traumatize you. This isn’t how I imagined this going.”
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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“It still traumatizes me at read-throughs. I’m like, oh my God, oh my God, please don’t mess up a word. It was a good training ground.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025
Advocates for people experiencing homelessness have expressed dismay and alarm with the mayor’s position, which they say often criminalizes the city’s most vulnerable residents and can further traumatizes many of them, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
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
“Use of such restraint traumatizes a person in emotional distress and exacerbates the condition and experience of the crisis for the individual,” she said in an email.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2016
As in one of the most moribund sports teams in history, chronically traumatized and championship-deprived.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
That procedure, they argued, would result in “Christa involuntarily reliving the worst moments of her life, much like traumatized soldiers when they return from a war zone.”
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
With a PG-13 rating that gets away with quite a bit, the action harkens back to the days of “Poltergeist,” a PG-rated film that had whole families walking out of the theater traumatized and silent.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 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
Oliver stayed back with Hyacinth on the second floor, since she was still traumatized from the placemat disaster.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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Fireworks are also traumatizing for pets, particularly dogs, which tremble and even bolt from their homes in fear.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
How would adolescents get through their fictional puberty if no one was traumatizing them?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Divorce is a traumatizing event, and your friend has moved on in a productive and forward-looking manner.
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
I thought high school was traumatizing enough, but I didn’t have to deal with anything close to what the teens in “Yellowjackets” have endured for three seasons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2026
All of these questions ran through my mind at the thought of the story and of all the traumatizing things that women faced.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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