fetish
Example Sentences
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Cropped at the waist and the thighs, the study is certainly a fetish object.
From New York Times
With great subversiveness, Portis consistently abjured America’s postwar fetishes for progress, social mobility and affluence.
From Washington Post
It doesn’t require a cosplay fetish or a familiarity with specific lore.
From Washington Post
Because if you call it fetish, that means that totem that you introduced — the rosary — is fetish.’”
From New York Times
Both can be seen as fetish objects, but then so can everything in “Half-Life.”
From Washington Post
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