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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

There are certainly examples of students and consumers of culture making suspect claims that certain words or images traumatize them.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2024

“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

She was packing up her things slowly so as to not traumatize Ma.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat

“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

He is understandably traumatized, put under police investigation and stymied when he tries to find out more about the dead girl and her motives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Paramount's "Heart of the Beast," starring Brad Pitt as a former soldier and his loyal but traumatized combat dog as they survive in the Alaskan wilderness, finished in fourth place with $7.1 million.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

Jordan, who escapes relatively unscathed, is at once cowed and traumatized yet committed to vengeance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 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

“My wife is traumatized, Baaz. We're never setting foot in this wretched place again. To think we even considered supporting it...”

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

The emotional outpouring comes after Francesca realizes she’s not pregnant — a hopeful assumption that leads to a traumatizing and invasive examination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

I think she actually said “little boy,” but it was so traumatizing to hear that I may have blocked it out.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith