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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

“Our Board of Supervisors knows that these conditions beneath human dignity stigmatize and traumatize people and make all of us less safe.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023

The movie's footage was so unsettling that parents' groups claimed the film would traumatize children and even scare them away from Christmas.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2023

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

But experiencing trauma with the understanding that it is in a dream traumatizes others all over again, she said.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 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

“The Catcher in the Rye” is a text that is flatly impossible to decouple from its author: A book about trauma written in the midst of trauma by a traumatized man.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 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

Clark Kent, who escaped Krypton as a baby, this traumatized 20-something bore witness to their home planet’s long and painful extinction.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

Court reporters—who often rely on nonverbal cues and work with traumatized witnesses—are an example of AI’s limitations in replacing human skill in the real world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

And nine-year-old Richard had gone from being the center of his mother’s world to just one more traumatized member of a family with a gaping hole in it.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

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

While that was traumatizing at the time, the finality helped my grieving.

From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026

Michôd occasionally comes close to suggesting a strange power play is going on here, where James is bullying Christy to fight harder during matches by traumatizing her himself.

From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025

Also, there was the risk of her going into labor one day during AP Chem and traumatizing everyone in the junior class.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway