fetish
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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
Komfo Anokye was a powerful fetish priest - a person believed to act as a mediator between the spirit and living.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2023
His needs were obscure to me, and what I could perceive of them seemed to me ridiculous, laughable, like a fetish for lace-up shoes.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Tupper’s Mick, at the mercy of his brittle fetishes, may be the most believable of this quartet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Former President Lazarus Chakwera insists the canines, trained to detect weapons, black-magic fetishes and other potential threats, are key members of his security detail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
Rust Cohle slow dances with murmurings about Carcosa in Season 1, and the anthology’s creator Nic Pizzolatto spiced up the mystique by depositing backwoods fetishes near crime scenes.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024
“We have to leave old taboos and old fetishes behind,” Mr. Macron said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
The witch woman buried fetishes in secret places, took her payment, and departed in her mule cart.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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