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
Instead, Fehlbaum fills the frame with his fetish for tactile objects: stopwatches, soldering irons, stacks of sandwiches, dot-matrix printers.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 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
It was idiocy, I thought, the military bed-making fetish, but the wisdom of the advice was immediately clear.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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