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
Essentially, he gaslights himself to the finish line.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 2, 2023
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
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
"It's really important for other people to know what's happened and to understand if they're being gaslighted as well, that they're not alone, that this is what's going on," she said.
From BBC β Dec. 18, 2024
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
Lanier said the most offensive part of the Harvard report was the university’s pledge to engage and support direct descendants: “We are being gaslighted by Harvard.”
From Washington Post β Apr. 26, 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
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 is currently researching medical gaslighting and gathering evidence via a questionnaire.
From BBC β Jul. 19, 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
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
After years of being made to feel dramatic and "constantly gaslit", Elen said the diagnosis was something she "really needed".
From BBC β Nov. 2, 2025
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
