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
Instead, Fehlbaum fills the frame with his fetish for tactile objects: stopwatches, soldering irons, stacks of sandwiches, dot-matrix printers.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 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
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
He always made a fetish of lateness, to indicate that his life was crammed with many things, all of them more important than I was, and today is no exception.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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