fetish

Example Sentences

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Ranging in age from toddlers to teens, these girls speak with a moral clarity that cuts through any defense of this country’s carceral fetish.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025

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

"Or it was chic the first time Lloyd did it, but now it just looks like a fetish for ventilation ducts."

From BBC • May 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

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