NEW YORK — Merriam-Webster defines gaslighting as 'the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one's own advantage.'
NEW YORK — Merriam-Webster defines gaslighting as"the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one's own advantage."
The word has been used in a wide range of contexts from the Jan. 6 committee hearings to reality TV drama on"On the subject of gaslighting, we do hope you'll trust us," Sokolowski said.Merriam-Webster shared other standout words that shed light on experiences that shaped this year. "Omicron" spiked in searches in January when cases of the COVID-19 variant, which was named for the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet, surged. According to Merriam-Webster, it saw another increase in lookups in November when"studies found that the omicron booster was not significantly more effective than the older vaccines."
According to the dictionary publisher, during Pride Month in June the acronym"LGBTQIA" peaked, while later that month"sentient" became a top lookup after"a Google engineer claimed the company's AI chatbot had developed a human-like consciousness."
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