trauma

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To calculate learning losses, researchers accounted for the combined effects of trauma and starvation, drawing on established studies showing how both undermine learning.

From Science Daily

Hayley said people with stammers were often mocked or villainised in the media and sometimes portrayed as having them as a result of trauma.

From BBC

“I think if trauma can be passed along generations, values can too. So this is to the ones that are sticking with their values in difficult moments.”

From Los Angeles Times

The social compact that endured since that trauma was that Iranians would acquiesce to hardship and restrictions in return for a strong state that protects them from foreign attack.

From The Wall Street Journal

“But Georgi kept wanting to get underneath it, to excavate it. Explore the fire, explore the trauma. She came in and said, ‘This show is about identity.’

From Los Angeles Times