cult object
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That movie, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, has since become an endlessly quoted cult object and an influential teen-movie classic.
From Slate ● May 27, 2021
It also became a status symbol — Dyson recently released a version of the Supersonic plated in 23.75-karat gold that sells for $500 — and a cult object.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2018
Tantanmen is a perfect cult object, occupying the space where chile freaks and ramen obsessives intersect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2018
Van Gogh’s ear was sacralised as a cult object in the age of Ginsberg, Pollock and Kirk Douglas, when art really was a pursuit of expression, truth and revelation.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2016
In California and New York, in the advertising world and in Silicon Valley, it became a kind of cult object that matched the stripped-down aesthetic of the new economy.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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