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

We are running on the energy of farmers’ labor and transmuting it into fetish object, and it feels almost beautiful on set in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 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

“For Gaetz and others, it’s a fetish to them to have this much power and attention,” Stutzman said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 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