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trauma

[trau-muh, traw-] / ˈtraʊ mə, ˈtrɔ- /


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Vanetsky said her grandson was struggling at home in the wake of the trauma he'd been through.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

The researchers say the scale of the demographic collapse has important implications for understanding intergenerational trauma, persistent disadvantage, and the development of policies that better support Indigenous communities.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

I believe it helps enormously to know that this was a shared, collective trauma, and that many millions of people around the world also went through what you experienced.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

The certificate lists Mackie’s cause of death as a subarachnoid hemorrhage and blunt head trauma.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

His followers had helped so many people after the earthquake, but he was taking advantage of the trauma to instill fear in them, too.

From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai

Others are putting their money on Antiguan-American author Jamaica Kincaid, whose work deals with exile, identity and the traumas inherited from colonialism, or on Chinese writer Can Xue.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

"It's good to help others get through major disasters and traumas."

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

They had grandparents for the kids to stay with, so they did not go—as tens of thousands do each year—into state custody, with the many attendant traumas that entails.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

When not looking backward, or inward to personal traumas, American novelists have turned their gaze to the uncertain future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

One of the country's least-discussed postwar problems is how frequently combat veterans bring the traumas of war back with them and are incarcerated after returning to their communities.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

We shall refer later on to those other exactly similar cases of cyclical depression which can nevertheless easily be traced back to mental traumata.

From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Sigmund Freud

The principal causes of primary keratitis are traumata and infection from the conjunctiva.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

He received several head traumata and suffered from enuresis in his early life.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

Absorption takes place from the inner surface of the uterus or from traumata in the genital canal.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various


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