trauma

Example Sentences

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The trauma of losing her house left her in a prolonged depression.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

She said historical forced adoption caused "unimaginable trauma for multiple generations of women and profound, often devastating impacts for their children".

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

You would think that by the logic of such trauma I would have become a peace activist, but it became for me a predicate to conservatism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

The church was "seeking to become more trauma informed, listening to survivors and victims of abuse", she said in an interview with the BBC this week.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

Each time he had given those unsettling warnings, he had been airing out his own trauma, distancing himself from it by reducing it to a cautionary tale.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros