gaslight
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Ironically, she says: "I medically gaslight myself to get through the day."
From BBC β Jul. 18, 2026
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
But if they are willing to gaslight you about pay, exploring other options might be smart.
From MarketWatch β Jan. 21, 2026
Flight upon steep flight of stone and flickering gaslight.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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
They watched the gaslights go dim in several rooms, indicating that the occupants were settling in for the night.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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
“Part of me felt like I was being gaslighted by the department,’' Carranza testified this week.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 29, 2022
As to Martha Mitchell, then, was she indeed being gaslighted or simply, well, Martha Mitchell-effected?
From Washington Post β Apr. 27, 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
And maybe let others make theirs, too—free of the gaslighting.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 23, 2026
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
“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
In April, then-health secretary Wes Streeting said the NHS had an "appalling culture of medical misogyny", external where being "ignored, gaslit, humiliated and disrespected, were common experiences for far too many women".
From BBC β Oct. 13, 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
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
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