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fetishized

verb

past tense of fetishize

as in objectified

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We were objectified by most of our producers.

— Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Appropriation of surplus labor, objectified in commodities, drove the system.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025

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For more than a century, a new car symbolized opportunity—the freedom to chase a better job, build a family, discover America or simply drive toward an unknown horizon.

— Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Each base represented one of the ballpark’s first three All-Star Games, and home plate symbolized the 2027 All-Star Game.

— Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2026

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Crypto and fintech brands are abandoning costly influencer marketing due to diminishing returns, exemplified by a $30,000 payment yielding only one sign-up.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
The rotten culture that is seeping ever deeper into football was exemplified by the announcement that one of the game’s most successful referees had retired.

— Graham Scott, New York Times, 23 July 2026

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The show’s first trailer, which debuted during DC Studios’ Hall H panel, illustrated its commitment to using traditional cop show tropes on a comic book property.

— Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 24 July 2026
This was starkly illustrated by Sunday’s final, which ended with Spain beating Argentina 1-0 courtesy of Ferran Torres’s extra-time goal.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 24 July 2026

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Catherine takes that description to new extremes, embodied by Petticrew with terrifying intensity.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 27 July 2026
There were four outlandish, outcast characters, whom Goldberg utterly embodied with something as slight as the crossing of her eyes or the dragging of her leg.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 25 July 2026

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