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trauma

Definition for trauma

noun as in severe mental or physical pain

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As Dax tries to get back to his normal life, a past trauma threatens to upend more for him than MI6’s machinations.

The sparkly element symbolizes a space of both historical trauma — recalling the death and drowning of so many enslaved Africans during the Middle Passage in the Atlantic — and healing.

"A lot of children’s stories and films have loss or trauma or bereavement in them," Mr Adams said.

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She wrote a memoir about the trauma, which some credit with starting Japan’s #MeToo movement, and worked on her documentary, pursuing legal cases against Yamaguchi for much of that intervening period.

Yet a significant proportion of the population have experienced severe childhood trauma – as many as 10-12% of people in the UK according to some studies – but a far smaller number commit acts of criminal violence.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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