Example Sentences

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He worries that this will traumatize his community in perpetuity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025

“My husband and I decided that we will traumatize them no more” by keeping them in schools where few looked like them, Fatima says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2022

Skeptics sometimes ask Neal whether administering emergency care will traumatize a young person, to which he responds, “It may be more traumatic to stand there and watch someone die.”

From The New Yorker • Apr. 1, 2019