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This Story Is About Gaslighting. Or Is It?
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Gaslighting. Or Is It?
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This Story Is About Gaslighting. Or Is It?

Leslie Jamison takes a deep dive into the amorphous meaning of the term these days

(Newser) - Have you ever been gaslit? The answer is without a doubt yes given the hard-to-pin-down nature of the term that has exploded in popularity . Leslie Jamison digs in at the New Yorker , beginning with the dictionary definition—the "psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of...

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