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
They may lie all the time, but when the chips are down, they gaslight.
From Salon β Nov. 9, 2024
Many nights after the door was locked and the shutters closed, I sat on in the flickering gaslight, poring over old inventories and wholesalers’ statements.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
He’s aghast and gaslights his way into the story.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 29, 2022
In it, Bergman’s husband tells her she’s imagining things when their belongings mysteriously start going missing and she seems to see the gaslights dim and hear footsteps.
From Washington Post β Apr. 15, 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
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
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 Andrew F. Crosse
Whatever happens will be cloaked in lies — and followed by gaslighting.
From Salon β Aug. 18, 2026
And maybe let others make theirs, too—free of the gaslighting.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 23, 2026
She told Lloyd she was once her friend but was met with "blame, rejection and gaslighting" when she tried to "shift blame" on to her husband.
From BBC β Jun. 5, 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
“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
With his new version of The Secret Garden, Wentworth is trying to inform young people about recognising when they might be being gaslit and how to advocate for themselves.
From BBC β Jul. 18, 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
We yearn for the dopamine hit of a good deal, but at the same time feel gaslit by retailers that aren’t transparent about their pricing policies.
From Slate β Mar. 1, 2025
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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