fetish

variants also fetich

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Recent Examples of fetish This is more than just a fetish, a crush, unresolved mommy/daddy issues or a passing fascination. Linsey Hughes, Flow Space, 10 Sep. 2025 Meanwhile, the sardonic and calculating Dennis (Sweeney), who, based on a pre-accident romantic encounter with Rocky, seems to have a twink fetish, ingratiates himself into Roman’s life with a master plan. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2025 This 'scientist's' fetish for vaccines not supported by the data. Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025 Inside, the horse theme almost comes across as a fetish, at least for me. New Atlas, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fetish
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fetish
Noun
  • This new therapy offers a promising approach for creating effective clinical treatments by directly targeting the blood vessel problems associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Noting the billions of dollars that Arkansas spends each year on federal programs to help the poor, including Medicaid, food stamps, child welfare and unemployment assistance, Sanders suggested the problems are often too big for a single program to fix.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Kane is the goalscorer and all-round talisman, Olise the drifting, carrying playmaker and Gnabry the dynamic generalist.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • To explain these distortions, experts speculate that the figures served as fertility talismans—designed to maximize those parts of the body that evolution has encoded us to see as signs of optimal child-bearers.
    Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In the book, Keaton reflected on modern standards of beauty, pondering the societal obsession with how things look.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Brudos got his name for his obsession with women's feet.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Norfolk State’s iteration (style code IO8310-001) combines full-grain leather, synthetic leather and suede in Court Green and Midwest Gold as a nod to its Spiro Spartan mascot.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The Jimmy Kimmel Live host's longtime rival snuck onto the show disguised as Frankie Focus, the new mascot for New York education who was introduced in tandem with the state's school cellphone ban.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The fixation on a single dream school narrows opportunity, heightens stress, and sometimes backfires.
    Jeffrey Selingo, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Tim Robinson, who so often plays men consumed by petty fixations or compelled to take things too far, has his own fixations.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Brides in South Asia are famously decked out in the precious metal – necklaces, earrings, nose rings, hair pieces and amulets – that can be gifted or inherited.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Last year, archaeologists found 337 coins – many containing a Cleopatra image – along with oil lamps, an amulet, and vessels for storing food and cosmetics.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Tracking macros can be time-consuming and may create unnecessary stress and preoccupation with food choices and calorie intake.
    Jillian Kubala, Health, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Despite the irony of her preoccupation with designer labels designating her as the stuffy one in the Spice Girls, she was met with scorn by the fashion establishment.
    Scarlett Harris, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Walker’s performance is one of the greatest portrayals of homicidal mania in film history.
    Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
  • Newsweek spoke with two mental health experts to better understand the rare condition, which is characterized by both schizophrenia symptoms and mood disorders such as mania or depression.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Fetish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fetish. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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