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
"Publicly to the media, they're accepting they failed, they're accepting that they did stuff wrong but in private they're trying to gaslight me," she said.
From BBC β Jan. 20, 2026
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
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
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
He’s aghast and gaslights his way into the story.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 29, 2022
Maybe it was the club’s stuffiness or the sallow glow of the gaslights, but the room seemed to shrink by the moment.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
In a press conference after the judgement, one of the nurses said they felt they had been "gaslighted" by NHS managers.
From BBC β Jan. 21, 2026
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
“I was being gaslighted by Wells Fargo,” Doe said.
From Los Angeles Times β Feb. 7, 2023
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
Once beyond the gaslighted streets, the sense of darkness in the midst of the surging multitude was oppressive and unnatural.
From Round About the Carpathians by Andrew F. Crosse
"With endometriosis, most people end up minimising their pain, gaslighting themselves so they don't reach out for help," Abbie Filer explains.
From BBC β Jul. 12, 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
The office space gaslighting gives way to horror trickery, slackening the plot’s tension until it nearly unravels in the final act.
From Salon β Sep. 13, 2023
"It's not every day you get gaslit by the King," is the headline of the Mail on Sunday after Buckingham Palace released a statement saying that fraternal grief could "colour memory".
From BBC β Sep. 20, 2026
“And that they’ve been gaslit into thinking that they’re stagnant when they actually just know who they are,” says Stewart.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 12, 2026
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
Liz Plank, on her Substack, describes the nausea and disorientation felt by women realizing this past week that we had all been gaslit yet again.
From Slate β Feb. 12, 2026
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
