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Rather than fetishizing lo-fi textural overlap, Slippers 08 rearranges the instrumental furniture to center her voice, which always cuts through despite the sizable reverb applied to the vocal track.—Jude Noel, Pitchfork, 19 June 2026 This isn’t about fetishizing offal.—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026 Indeed, in many ways, West’s performatively anti-white, unpatriotic, and cosmopolitan version of polyamory is the blue-state mirror image of tradwifery, which, in its various forms, can fetishize whiteness, nostalgic Americana, and (often Christian) nationalism.—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2026 To fetishize the martial spirit, however, would miss the broader effort feeding it.—Liam Denning, Bloomberg, 12 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fetishize