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Almost fetishizing the cruddiness.—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 13 Mar. 2026 Conductors often fetishize the opening bars of this opera, their squirmy alternation of silence and piquant dissonance.—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026 For all their faults, looksmaxxers are intent on de-fetishizing this particular commodity, revealing beauty to be the product of strenuous (and often deranging) labor.—Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2026 The point is not to fetishize a single metric.—Noosheen Hashemi, Time, 26 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fetishize