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trauma

[trau-muh, traw-] / ˈtraʊ mə, ˈtrɔ- /


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Such mistrust, which is also levelled at healthcare professionals, is often fuelled by poverty and trauma related to years of armed conflict, he says.

From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026

In the aftermath of their shared trauma, Charlie and Sam have grown into different brands of tough cookie, which doesn’t bode well for their getting along.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

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

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

Their bruise-hued palettes—blue, pink, purple, yellow—become our own in an act of transformational trauma made beautiful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Schools across the country dispatched social workers to “help young people cope with what they’re hearing,” but in the hallways of Shaker Heights High School, the mood was hilarity rather than trauma.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

Hungary has opened communist-era secret police files to the public, in a controversial move the government says will help Hungarian society heal itself from the traumas of 45 years of communist rule.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Ditka had borne witness to football’s physical and cognitive traumas, in teammates, former players like McMahon and the late Dave Duerson, and himself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

There were hardships and traumas, periods of institutionalization.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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

He received several head traumata and suffered from enuresis in his early life.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

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

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

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


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