fetish

variants also fetich

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of fetish If that fetish somehow didn’t already exist, Cronenberg likely created it with Crash. A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2025 Yeah, that was not from the podcast, but that is a fetish! Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2025 Real-life allegations of a cannibalism fetish against actor Armie Hammer were also making news, and continue to. Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2025 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. Amy Nicholson, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fetish
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fetish
Noun
  • For the social workers working with families through trauma, joblessness, health problems or other crises, burnout was a real concern.
    UNICEF USA, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • The problem is that everybody knows it: While Cinque Terre is home to 4,000 residents,more than 2.4 million people visit the area per year.
    Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • These talismans of use are analogous to the often unaffected art work shown at Intuit.
    Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2025
  • The radiant diamond Evil Eye cocktail ring in 18k yellow gold is designed as a talisman for protection and a good luck piece.
    Anthony DeMarco, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • The senate’s habitual obsession with women as a threat (to conquest, power, imperial security, male dignity) cannot be overstated.
    Literary Hub June 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
  • Melissa Benoist stars as Nicole, whose romantic relationship with Andrew (Miles Teller) is fractured because of Andrew’s obsession with drumming in writer-director Damien Chazelle’s psychological drama Whiplash.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • Raising Cane's second mascot, Cane II, stepped into her role in 1999.
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 26 June 2025
  • In addition to sauces, Pickled Prince sells pickles, giardiniera and kimchi at farmers markets, alongside a funky-looking pickle mascot.
    Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • The designer is taking part in Milan Men’s Fashion Week with a daylong event on Friday that is part boutique opening and part presentation of the spring 2026 collection, rooted in fluidity and charm and built on his fixation for rebooting ’80s silhouettes.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 20 June 2025
  • The withdrawn teen obsessively draws dark spiders in class and shows a disturbing fixation on news reports of school shootings.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • There are also equippable amulets that offer passive and combo-specific bonuses.
    Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 14 June 2025
  • Signature brand pieces include amulets, angels, royal blue moonstones and more.
    Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Deprivation, along with a preoccupation with food, our bodies, and working out, only increases that vulnerability.
    Time, Time, 26 June 2025
  • Everything from schooling and leisure to clothes and food in the Xi household were shaped by broader preoccupations within the elite.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • There’s a quiet mania about people like Stephen A., who work both morning and late shifts, on the same days.
    Danyel Smith, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2025
  • The resentment that artists feel about the act of laundering their patron’s cultural cache has been around at least as long as the Greeks were dealing with Alcibiades, but Mac brings a pleasurably vicious mania to this particular play-as-tirade.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 13 June 2025

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“Fetish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fetish. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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