concussive
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He has also identified what he said are clear parallels between crews’ symptoms and those he’s found in soldiers with concussive traumas caused by chemical exposures and explosive blasts on battlefields.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
The fires ripped a path of destruction, one so total and instantaneous that it was concussive for L.A.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025
The 64-year-old Lewis said he’s living with probable CTE, which he described as a type of dementia associated with repeated concussive and sub-concussive blows to the head.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 23, 2024
Susan Rodway, representing them, said in court filings the defendants "ought to have known of the likelihood of long-term neurological complications due to cumulative concussive or sub-concussive blows to the head".
From BBC • Dec. 1, 2023
The westering moon went to bury herself in banks of cloud; the wind increasing piped and whistled in strident threatening through the rigging; the ship vibrated to the concussive voice of the minute-gun.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 by Various
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