fetish

Example Sentences

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A man has admitted making hundreds of nuisance calls to the NHS 111 line in order to indulge a "sexual foot fetish", police said.

From BBC

If we can understand that a prestigious, expensive college education is a fetish many of us share, representing things we can fault no one for wanting, can't we extend the same empathy to student borrowers?

From Salon

Later, Western officials became focused on building consensus among Tunisia’s political leaders — and for which four organizations were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015 — to the point that it became a “fetish,” she said.

From New York Times

And it's clear that the committee does not need to cater to the Beltway media's fetish for bipartisanship to do its job.

From Salon

There is also deeper meaning in the way Obama singled out Trump's fetish for firing people.

From Salon