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trauma

[trau-muh, traw-] / ˈtraʊ mə, ˈtrɔ- /


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Before the ad featuring her mother, Acton had spoken openly about her trauma.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

Freyd, a psychology professor and trauma researcher, took notice.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

The first is trauma bonding — people using others to regulate their emotions.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

In July 2025, NHS Wales re-categorised ambulance calls - purple for cardiac or respiratory arrest and red for major trauma and other emergencies where patients risk cardiac or respiratory arrest.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Trauma del tren, train trauma, that is what Toño says that I have, over these long months with him.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

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

Still others have argued that collectors are “damaged personalities who have been driven to collect in attempts to repair traumas experienced in early infancy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

"It's good to help others get through major disasters and traumas."

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

The Lincoln’s fate has been the most heavily publicized, but it isn’t the only aircraft carrier to suffer these traumas.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 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

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

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

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 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

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


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