traumatic
Example Sentences
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"I want to commend the victim for her incredible courage in coming forward and reliving such a traumatic experience two decades later."
From BBC
“I just felt like all the just traumatic moments of my life really just started flooding my head,” he said.
He speculated that scholars and Americans in general were too disheartened by Vietnam to want to contemplate a traumatic rupture like the Civil War.
Still the journey to today's acceptance has been deeply traumatic.
From BBC
In a victim impact statement read out by the court, Kasia said the impact of her mother's disappearance had been traumatic throughout her life.
From BBC
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