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trauma

[trou-muh, traw-] / ˈtraʊ mə, ˈtrɔ- /


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Past forced contact with outsiders brought trauma, including disease outbreaks that devastated Indigenous populations lacking immunity.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

Unlike Synkov, many of the 3.7 million internally displaced people are unable to work due to trauma or skills that are not relevant in their new regions.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

A medic at one Tehran hospital who spoke with the BBC described the anguish of people suffering with conflict related trauma.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

“Looking at what Mamdani just did to me, and more broadly is doing to the City of New York, is triggering of the trauma I went through in Chicago,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

I swung my feet off the edge of the bed and grimaced: deep tissue trauma to the medial-poloni in the right leg.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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