fetish
Example Sentences
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Mr. Armitage distinguishes himself by refusing the fetish of incompleteness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Ranging in age from toddlers to teens, these girls speak with a moral clarity that cuts through any defense of this country’s carceral fetish.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025
We are running on the energy of farmers’ labor and transmuting it into fetish object, and it feels almost beautiful on set in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024
In both films, guns become truly dangerous when they become a fetish: an object worshipped for its supposed power and symbolic meaning.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2023
He always made a fetish of lateness, to indicate that his life was crammed with many things, all of them more important than I was, and today is no exception.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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