gaslight
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He also has to gaslight us by claiming that this system he’s creating is normatively good!
From Slate β Jul. 7, 2026
Esther Crain, the author of ‘The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910,’ says gold interiors served a practical purpose: brightening rooms lit by gaslight.
From The Wall Street Journal β Apr. 16, 2026
Your duty is to have spoken honestly once, respectfully and without coercion; to ensure that your values were clearly expressed; and to refuse to gaslight yourself into believing that fairness does not matter.
From MarketWatch β Jan. 26, 2026
Sandy and her team have tried to gaslight me in a sense where I'm supposed to be making all of this up or I'm being dramatic, but it happened.
From BBC β Mar. 27, 2025
A hush swept over the bank as Mr. Drysdale stepped inside, his eyes blinking a few moments as he adjusted to the dimmer gaslight of the bank’s ornate lobby.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
Founded in the 1830s, or maybe earlier, it’s been a private arts club, a home for nonconformist thinkers and drinkers since gaslights burned.
From Salon β Jun. 23, 2026
Essentially, he gaslights himself to the finish line.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 2, 2023
My research shows that gaslighting may be unintentional—for example, Audrey doesn't think her mother gaslights her on purpose.
From Scientific American β Sep. 22, 2022
Our older son, who is almost 9, has narcissistic tendencies, gaslights his brother, rigs games in his favor and shows extreme overconfidence.
From Washington Post β Sep. 21, 2022
In the dim glow of the harbor gaslights, she saw Dirix, one of the Dregs who’d been meant to make the journey with them.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
"It's really important for other people to know what's happened and to understand if they're being gaslighted as well, that they're not alone, that this is what's going on," she said.
From BBC β Dec. 18, 2024
I have spoken to others who left; their stories are not mine to share, but feeling unsupported and gaslighted when trying to advocate are common themes.
From Seattle Times β Apr. 19, 2024
“Part of me felt like I was being gaslighted by the department,’' Carranza testified this week.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 29, 2022
Elisabeth Epps, a lawyer and activist who was one of the protesters who sued, said the attorneys for the city she loves gaslighted the protesters during the trial, questioning their account of what happened.
From Washington Times β Mar. 25, 2022
But for ten minutes she sat in a leather-and-oak waiting room, beneath a fly-specked Rembrandt's "Night-Watch," a clock ticking spang into the gaslighted silence and the very chairs seeming to meditate as they stood.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
She told the BBC Access All podcast that what she'd experienced over the last 17 years was "medical gaslighting".
From BBC β Jul. 18, 2026
Theodore Boutrous, a Times lawyer, accused the administration at a hearing before Friedman in a Washington court on Monday of "gaslighting" and "bad faith."
From Barron's β Mar. 30, 2026
Yet we may be gaslighting ourselves about the likelihood of either nation meeting its deadline for putting humans on the lunar surface—China in 2030, the U.S. in 2028.
From The Wall Street Journal β Feb. 10, 2026
“And I don’t want to say it’s disproportionate, but to a certain degree it is. You’re constantly filtering out, is this real danger? You are kind of constantly gaslighting yourself.”
From Los Angeles Times β Feb. 8, 2026
There is simply too much gaslighting going on to spend adequate time debunking everything.
From Salon β Dec. 26, 2025
But worse than the price hikes is the unsettling feeling that consumers are being gaslit by tech giants paying lip service to the gaming community while delaying product releases or peddling AI-generated “slop.”
From MarketWatch β May 23, 2026
They’re saying: I refuse to be gaslit today.
From Slate β Oct. 20, 2025
"I felt like I was gaslit," Hanya says, "like all of these things were made up. Like none of it was true."
From BBC β Jun. 28, 2025
It’s bad enough that the public is being gaslit about an ongoing measles outbreak that has so far spread across 25 states, infecting more than 700 people, with more than 540 in Texas alone.
From Salon β Apr. 13, 2025
New Yorkers knew when the Fox sisters were at home because once again carriages full of spirit seekers lined the gaslit street, this time in front of their house.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
