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
For Lopez and his friends, leather is less about fetish and more about kinship, safety and visibility, in a city where queer Latino spaces remain scarce.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025
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
Hull parent Will Taylor criticised Genesis Pre-School for allowing access to Grandad's Pride, which he said showed a man in "leather fetish gear".
From BBC • Aug. 23, 2023
But the mothers tell him no, no, they had already tied the nkisi around the child’s neck or wrist, a fetish from the Nganga Kuvudundu to ward off evil.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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