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  • noun Plural form of trauma.

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Examples

  • Because the best way to overcome childhood traumas is to air them online to people you hardly know.

    Festerin' Festertash Slimbolala 2006

  • Even before those twin traumas came to a head, the American public’s trust in its leaders had frayed.

    Untruth and Consequences 2007

  • Even before those twin traumas came to a head, the American public’s trust in its leaders had frayed.

    Untruth and Consequences 2007

  • Some of them would begin by saying how sorry they were for all my terrible suffering, but they would then add that these so-called traumas of mine were aberrant, a “cultural thing,” nothing to do with Islam.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • Some of them would begin by saying how sorry they were for all my terrible suffering, but they would then add that these so-called traumas of mine were aberrant, a “cultural thing,” nothing to do with Islam.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • Some of them would begin by saying how sorry they were for all my terrible suffering, but they would then add that these so-called traumas of mine were aberrant, a “cultural thing,” nothing to do with Islam.

    Nomad Ayaan Hirsi Ali 2010

  • The only light relief to temper the traumas was the brief sight of Roy and Mary working through a poke of strawberry bon-bons in the public gallery.

    The Daily Record - Home 2010

  • But she recalled traumas of the past five decades: earthquakes, hurricanes and the "men with machetes" in the Duvalier years.

    NYT > Home Page By IAN URBINA 2010

  • The only light relief to temper the traumas was the brief sight of Roy and Mary working through a poke of strawberry bon-bons in the public gallery.

    The Daily Record - Home 2010

  • Scraps of Heaven, recalls the traumas of an earlier generation of refugees.

    newmatilda.com - Comments 2009

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