gaslight
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Why Graham is willing to gaslight his followers like this isn’t a mystery.
From Salon β May 15, 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
It all glowed invitingly in the flicker of gaslight lamps, a world away from the oily stews of indeterminate origin I’d been choking down at the Priest Hole.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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
“This tweet insults, gaslights & disrespects on an epic level,” tweeted activist and “Why I Resist” author Dr. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu.
From Los Angeles Times β Dec. 19, 2022
Among other instances, he insists her complains over the constant dimming of their London townhouse’s gaslights is a figment of her troubled mind.
From Seattle Times β Nov. 27, 2022
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
One telegraph boy made his way through the dark to an unlit alley that smelled of rotted fruit and was silent save for the receding hiss of gaslights on the street he had left behind.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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
"We are massively gaslighted and invalidated by healthcare professionals," said Charl Davies from Blaenavon, Torfaen.
From BBC β Mar. 17, 2024
Co-director Debra McClutchy says, “We thought, ‘This sounds familiar: A woman being gaslighted.’
From Los Angeles Times β Feb. 23, 2023
You are even being gaslighted into this statement: “I don’t want to be the cause of a total breakdown of the marriage.”
From Washington Post β Jun. 13, 2022
We had not much fancy for returning amongst the patriotic crowd gathered about the gaslighted Valhalla, so we made our way out.
From Round About the Carpathians by Crosse, Andrew F.
“What they did is against logic and gaslighting to the extreme.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 13, 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
West Midlands Police was, as Nick Timothy MP - who has led some of the criticism of the force - put it, "gaslighting them".
From BBC β Jan. 14, 2026
There is simply too much gaslighting going on to spend adequate time debunking everything.
From Salon β Dec. 26, 2025
But Ulman has strung together a net of interesting observations: glances, insults, mistaken presumptions and gaslighting fibs.
From Los Angeles Times β May 8, 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
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
“For the court to take a look at all the evidence and then agree with us,” Mateo said, “is such a big, powerful win to our community that has honestly been gaslit for so long.”
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 25, 2024
Booth was a creature of the city and its fancy hotel lobbies, saloons, oyster bars, and gaslit shadows.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
