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Over the past few years, the hottest trend on social media seems to be fetishizing being turned into a woodland creature.—Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2025 The New Yorker loves and fetishizes its traditions (the monocled fop Eustace Tilley, that stately but sensual Adobe Caslon font), but the magazine’s ultimate tradition is cutting through the scrim of contemporary noise to look reality in the eye, presenting it to the reader with a no-fuss vibrance.—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025 Frances has found success with her documentary, also called Flat Earth, which fetishizes the flyover states.—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025 Part of the problem might have been how a certain sort of scientific thinking can be fetishized.—Kathryn Paige Harden, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fetishize
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