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
Eugene went on crying and when Dad leaped from the bed and turned on the gaslight we saw the fleas, leaping, jumping, fastened to our flesh.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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
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
Night had fallen, and even by the yellow glow of the gaslights, I could see her irritation flare up.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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
“I was being gaslighted by Wells Fargo,” Doe said.
From Los Angeles Times β Feb. 7, 2023
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 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
“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 child hit out at Rhodes for "gaslighting me, parading around as a survivor, while destroying me and my mother".
From BBC β Jan. 16, 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
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
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
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
He contacted Morrisons' head office, but said he felt "gaslit" by their response.
From BBC β Nov. 8, 2024
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
